Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 4,582 stores from 2,491 food & drink chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Jason's Deli grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chex Grill & Wings and Showmars.

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
2,491
Tracked stores
4,582
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. Jason's Deli and Chex Grill & Wings sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J Jason's Deli logo Jason's Deli ▲9 +17.1%
2 C Chex Grill & Wings logo Chex Grill & Wings ▲9 +16.0%
3 S Showmars logo Showmars ▲11 +15.3%
4 E Empire Pizza ▲7 +14.9%
5 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins ▲11 +14.5%
6 S Summit Coffee logo Summit Coffee ▲8 +14.3%
7 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲2 +14.1%
8 S Scooter's Coffee logo Scooter's Coffee ▲5 +13.3%
9 F Firebirds Wood Fired Grill logo Firebirds Wood Fired Grill ▲9 +10.6%
10 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲7 +10.3%
11 T Tacos 4 Life logo Tacos 4 Life ▲11 +9.8%
12 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲5 +7.5%
13 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster ▲5 +7.2%
14 W Waterbean Coffee ▲4 +7.0%
15 M Metro Diner logo Metro Diner ▲5 +6.6%

Store footprint

Store map

4,582 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC, colored by category.

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