Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL

Iceflower tracks 1,622 stores from 1,158 food & drink chains in Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL. Waffle House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Miller's Ale House and Scooter's Coffee.

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
1,158
Tracked stores
1,622
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 Miller's Ale House sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Waffle House ▲7 +16.0%
2 Miller's Ale House ▲1 +12.4%
3 Scooter's Coffee ▲1 +12.0%
4 Marco's Pizza ▲1 +9.2%
5 Papa John's Pizza ▲8 +9.1%
6 Panera Bread ▲2 +8.9%
7 Stuff A Bagel ▲4 +8.4%
8 Pollo Tropical ▲9 +8.2%
9 Beef 'O' Brady's ▲4 +8.2%
10 3 Pepper Burrito Co ▲2 +7.0%
11 Dunkin' ▲1 +6.8%
12 Culver's - +6.3%
13 Mel's Diner ▲3 +5.9%
14 Bonefish Grill ▲4 +4.0%
15 Applebee's Grill + Bar ▲1 +2.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,622 tracked store locations in Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 119 of the 1,622 stores (7%); 1,026 of the 1,158 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked food & drink stores here are casual dining, against 9% across Florida.

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