Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY

Iceflower tracks 1,139 stores from 708 food & drink chains in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY. Tropical Smoothie Cafe grew fastest over the last year, ahead of LongHorn Steakhouse and Olive Garden.

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
708
Tracked stores
1,139
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. Tropical Smoothie Cafe and LongHorn Steakhouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲6 +17.8%
2 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲2 +14.5%
3 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden ▲2 +8.6%
4 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲3 +8.3%
5 J John's Pizza & Subs ▲2 +8.1%
6 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread - +7.8%
7 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲4 +7.5%
8 D Duff's Famous Wings logo Duff's Famous Wings - +5.7%
9 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▼1 +3.9%
10 C China King - +3.8%
11 T Tim Hortons logo Tim Hortons ▲1 +1.4%
12 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲2 +0.1%
13 A Arby's logo Arby's ▲2 -1.8%
14 J Just Pizza ▲2 -2.6%
15 F Franco's Pizza ▼1 -3.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,139 tracked store locations in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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