Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Columbia, SC

Iceflower tracks 1,286 stores from 673 food & drink chains in Columbia, SC. Little Caesars grew fastest over the last year, ahead of CAVA and Buffalo Wild Wings.

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
673
Tracked stores
1,286
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. Little Caesars and CAVA sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲3 +15.3%
2 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲2 +14.5%
3 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▲5 +12.7%
4 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲2 +9.7%
5 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +8.5%
6 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +8.3%
7 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲2 +8.3%
8 S Sub Station II logo Sub Station II ▲1 +6.5%
9 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▲1 +5.5%
10 E Eggs Up Grill logo Eggs Up Grill ▲2 +3.6%
11 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's ▲1 +3.0%
12 E East Bay Deli ▲1 +3.0%
13 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲3 +2.3%
14 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ▲4 +1.1%
15 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +0.5%

Store footprint

Store map

1,286 tracked store locations in Columbia, SC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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