Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Dalton, GA

Iceflower tracks 280 stores from 227 food & drink chains in Dalton, GA. Bojangles' grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McDonald's and Chick-fil-A.

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
227
Tracked stores
280
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. Bojangles' and McDonald's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Bojangles' - +6.6%
2 McDonald's - +3.9%
3 Chick-fil-A - +3.4%
4 Burger King ▲1 +2.7%
5 Captain D's - +0.7%
6 Starbucks ▼1 -3.6%
7 Subway ▲1 -8.3%
8 Krystal - -14.0%
9 Sonic Drive-In ▲1 -16.1%
10 Wendy's - -24.5%
11 Little Caesars ▼2 -48.5%

Store footprint

Store map

280 tracked store locations in Dalton, GA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 26 of the 280 stores (9%); 201 of the 227 tracked chains have a single store here. 15% of the tracked food & drink stores here are Mexican restaurants & taquerias, against 6% across Georgia.

Top tracked chains by store count

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