Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 369 stores from 274 food & drink chains in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA. Arby's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burger King 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
274
Tracked stores
369
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. Arby's and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Arby's ▲1 +12.0%
2 Burger King ▲2 +11.6%
3 Dairy Queen - +5.6%
4 Waffle House ▲1 +2.8%
5 Papa John's Pizza - +2.6%
6 Chipotle Mexican Grill - +2.0%
7 Chick-fil-A ▲1 +1.3%
8 Tha Dawg House ▲1 +0.8%
9 McDonald's - +0.8%
10 Bojangles' ▲1 -4.9%
11 Starbucks ▲1 -5.7%
12 Hardee's ▲1 -6.9%
13 Jimmy John's ▼3 -8.1%
14 Wendy's ▼1 -13.3%
15 Sonic Drive-In ▼1 -14.3%
  • Other restaurants
  • Casual Dining
  • Burger Chains
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Pizzerias
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

369 tracked store locations in Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford, VA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 43 of the 369 stores (12%); 240 of the 274 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked food & drink stores here are pizzerias, against 4% across Virginia.

  • Other restaurants (42)
  • Casual Dining (42)
  • Burger Chains (36)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (22)
  • Pizzerias (21)
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (20)
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias (19)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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