Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Cleveland, OH

Iceflower tracks 5,103 stores from 3,166 food & drink chains in Cleveland, OH. Dave's Hot Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Steak 'n Shake and Mr. Chicken.

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
3,166
Tracked stores
5,103
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. Dave's Hot Chicken and Steak 'n Shake sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dave's Hot Chicken ▲7 +17.4%
2 Steak 'n Shake ▲5 +13.5%
3 Mr. Chicken ▲8 +12.2%
4 McAlister's Deli ▲8 +12.0%
5 Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲8 +11.9%
6 Subway ▲5 +11.3%
7 East Coast Original Frozen Custard ▲10 +11.2%
8 First Watch ▲3 +10.7%
9 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲6 +10.5%
10 Waffle House ▲7 +10.2%
11 Condado Tacos ▲6 +9.5%
12 Biggby Coffee ▲7 +9.1%
13 Panera Bread ▲3 +8.3%
14 El Palenque ▲5 +8.1%
15 LongHorn Steakhouse ▲1 +7.2%

Store footprint

Store map

5,103 tracked store locations in Cleveland, OH, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 455 of the 5,103 stores (9%); 2,852 of the 3,166 tracked chains have a single store here.

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