Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Columbus, GA-AL

Iceflower tracks 534 stores from 357 food & drink chains in Columbus, GA-AL. Sonic Drive-In grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Little Caesars and Dairy Queen.

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
357
Tracked stores
534
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. Sonic Drive-In and Little Caesars sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲3 +18.7%
2 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲1 +16.4%
3 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲3 +16.2%
4 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲1 +13.4%
5 M Marco's Pizza logo Marco's Pizza ▲4 +6.4%
6 J Jack's logo Jack's ▲3 +2.7%
7 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +1.0%
8 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲2 -0.2%
9 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲1 -0.6%
10 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's - -1.4%
11 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▼1 -4.2%
12 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▼1 -5.3%
13 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▼2 -6.9%
14 B Burger King logo Burger King - -7.0%
15 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -12.7%

Store footprint

Store map

534 tracked store locations in Columbus, GA-AL, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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