Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Bowling Green, KY

Iceflower tracks 360 stores from 284 food & drink chains in Bowling Green, KY. Waffle House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McDonald's and Starbucks.

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
284
Tracked stores
360
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. Waffle House and McDonald's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Waffle House - +11.2%
2 McDonald's - -0.8%
3 Starbucks - -2.1%
4 Domino's Pizza - -3.2%
5 Chick-fil-A - -3.5%
6 Jimmy John's - -3.8%
7 Dairy Queen - -4.7%
8 Zaxby's ▲1 -7.0%
9 Wendy's ▲1 -8.5%
10 Taco Bell - -11.1%
11 Sonic Drive-In ▼1 -16.8%
12 Subway ▼1 -18.9%
  • Burger Chains
  • Casual Dining
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias
  • Other restaurants
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Pizza Chains
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

360 tracked store locations in Bowling Green, KY, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 38 of the 360 stores (11%); 252 of the 284 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked food & drink stores here are pizza chains, against 6% across Kentucky.

  • Burger Chains (39)
  • Casual Dining (33)
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (29)
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias (27)
  • Other restaurants (25)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (23)
  • Pizza Chains (17)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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