Trends · data through August 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 1,008 stores from 661 food & drink chains in Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL. Waffle House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chili's Grill & Bar and Steak 'n Shake.

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
661
Tracked stores
1,008
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 Chili's Grill & Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲6 +17.0%
2 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲9 +16.6%
3 S Steak 'n Shake logo Steak 'n Shake ▲4 +15.3%
4 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲6 +14.3%
5 L Lazy Flamingo ▲4 +13.2%
6 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲1 +9.5%
7 M Miller's Ale House logo Miller's Ale House ▲1 +9.1%
8 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's - +8.7%
9 M Marco's Pizza logo Marco's Pizza - +8.4%
10 P Pollo Tropical logo Pollo Tropical ▲5 +6.2%
11 M Mel's Diner logo Mel's Diner ▲2 +6.0%
12 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▲3 +6.0%
13 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +5.8%
14 J Jimmy John's logo Jimmy John's ▲3 +4.9%
15 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲1 +4.8%

Store footprint

Store map

1,008 tracked store locations in Cape Coral-Fort Myers, FL, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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