Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Cedar Rapids, IA

Iceflower tracks 567 stores from 436 food & drink chains in Cedar Rapids, IA. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cold Stone Creamery and Subway.

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
436
Tracked stores
567
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. Panda Express and Cold Stone Creamery sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Panda Express ▲3 +11.8%
2 Cold Stone Creamery ▲1 +6.9%
3 Subway ▲1 +6.6%
4 Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲1 +6.1%
5 Domino's Pizza ▲1 +4.5%
6 Scooter's Coffee ▲2 +3.2%
7 Burger King - +0.5%
8 Dairy Queen ▲1 0.0%
9 Chick-fil-A - -0.2%
10 Culver's - -0.2%
11 McDonald's - -0.8%
12 Pizza Ranch ▲1 -4.6%
13 Buffalo Wild Wings ▼2 -5.9%
14 Taco John's - -7.7%
15 Jimmy John's - -8.2%

Store footprint

Store map

567 tracked store locations in Cedar Rapids, IA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 55 of the 567 stores (10%); 392 of the 436 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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