Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Bedford

Iceflower tracks 230 stores from 181 food & drink chains in Bedford. The Kings Arms grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Greggs and The Swan.

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
181
Tracked stores
230
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. The Kings Arms and Greggs sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Kings Arms ▲2 +18.5%
2 G Greggs logo Greggs - +6.3%
3 T The Swan ▲2 +5.2%
4 T The Bell - +2.7%
5 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▼1 +0.2%
6 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -2.6%
7 C Costa Express logo Costa Express - -3.2%
8 K KFC logo KFC - -4.8%
9 B Burger King logo Burger King ▼1 -10.5%
10 S Subway logo Subway ▼2 -34.5%

Store footprint

Store map

230 tracked store locations in Bedford, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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