Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Connecticut

Iceflower tracks 2,198 stores from 1,142 food & drink chains in Connecticut. Dairy Queen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Jersey Mike's Subs and The Shack.

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
1,142
Tracked stores
2,198
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. Dairy Queen and Jersey Mike's Subs sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲1 +18.2%
2 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲3 +16.5%
3 T The Shack ▲3 +14.9%
4 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza - +14.9%
5 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings - +10.7%
6 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - +10.1%
7 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +5.4%
8 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲1 +5.1%
9 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - +4.5%
10 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲1 +4.1%
11 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▼1 +3.1%
12 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +2.5%
13 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack - +2.1%
14 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▼1 +1.9%
15 I IHOP logo IHOP - +1.8%

Store footprint

Store map

2,198 tracked store locations in Connecticut, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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