Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Burlington, NC

Iceflower tracks 295 stores from 211 food & drink chains in Burlington, NC. Taco Bell grew fastest over the last year, ahead of La Fiesta and Papa John's Pizza.

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
211
Tracked stores
295
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 La Fiesta sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲1 +13.1%
2 L La Fiesta ▲2 +11.6%
3 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza - +6.2%
4 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +3.4%
5 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's - +0.3%
6 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▼1 +0.2%
7 A Arby's logo Arby's - -0.1%
8 B Biscuitville logo Biscuitville - -3.6%
9 B Bojangles' logo Bojangles' ▲1 -4.5%
10 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - -5.0%
11 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲1 -6.0%
12 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▼1 -6.1%
13 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - -7.4%
14 C Cook Out logo Cook Out ▼1 -7.5%
15 S Subway logo Subway ▲1 -11.4%

Store footprint

Store map

295 tracked store locations in Burlington, NC, colored by category.

  • Restaurant (121)
  • Fast Food Restaurant (43)
  • Pizzaria (23)
  • Coffee Shop (20)
  • Chicken Restaurant (17)
  • Breakfast Restaurant (16)
  • Casual Eatery (15)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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