Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA

Iceflower tracks 270 stores from 190 food & drink chains in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA. Taco Bell grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Waffle House and Dairy Queen.

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
190
Tracked stores
270
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. Taco Bell and Waffle House sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +10.6%
2 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +8.0%
3 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - +4.1%
4 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +3.8%
5 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +1.6%
6 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - -3.0%
7 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - -3.2%
8 J Jimmy John's logo Jimmy John's ▼1 -3.4%
9 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza - -5.0%
10 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza - -5.0%
11 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars - -5.6%
12 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -6.3%
13 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' ▲1 -6.5%
14 S Subway logo Subway - -11.2%
15 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▼1 -16.9%

Store footprint

Store map

270 tracked store locations in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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