Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Battle Creek, MI

Iceflower tracks 259 stores from 197 food & drink chains in Battle Creek, MI. Wendy's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Schlotzsky's and Burger King.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
197
Tracked stores
259
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked food & drink chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Wendy's and Schlotzsky's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Wendy's ▲1 +11.0%
2 Schlotzsky's - +7.8%
3 Burger King ▲1 +7.6%
4 McDonald's - +2.8%
5 Starbucks ▲1 +0.7%
6 Taco Bell - -1.7%
7 Biggby Coffee ▲1 -2.8%
8 Hungry Howie's Pizza - -5.7%
9 Domino's Pizza ▼1 -8.9%
10 Arby's ▼2 -14.0%
11 Little Caesars - -16.6%
12 Subway ▼1 -30.5%
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Casual Dining
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Burger Chains
  • Pizza Chains
  • Coffee Chains
  • Pizzerias
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

259 tracked store locations in Battle Creek, MI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 40 of the 259 stores (15%); 177 of the 197 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked food & drink stores here are cafes & bakery-cafes, against 6% across Michigan.

  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (27)
  • Casual Dining (26)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (26)
  • Burger Chains (23)
  • Pizza Chains (19)
  • Coffee Chains (15)
  • Pizzerias (14)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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