Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Champaign-Urbana, IL

Iceflower tracks 548 stores from 412 food & drink chains in Champaign-Urbana, IL. Culver's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Steak 'n Shake and Starbucks.

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
412
Tracked stores
548
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. Culver's and Steak 'n Shake sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Culver's ▲1 +17.5%
2 Steak 'n Shake ▲1 +17.3%
3 Starbucks ▲2 +10.8%
4 Little Caesars ▲1 +6.7%
5 Monical's Pizza ▲2 +5.5%
6 McDonald's - +5.0%
7 Dairy Queen - +1.7%
8 Panda Express ▲1 -0.6%
9 Domino's Pizza ▼1 -3.7%
10 Arby's - -4.0%
11 Burger King - -5.6%
12 Papa John's Pizza ▼2 -6.6%
13 Dunkin' - -6.8%
14 Espresso Royale ▼1 -8.1%
15 Subway ▼3 -11.0%

Store footprint

Store map

548 tracked store locations in Champaign-Urbana, IL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 58 of the 548 stores (11%); 359 of the 412 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked food & drink stores here are pizza chains, against 3% across Illinois.

Top tracked chains by store count

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