Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in District of Columbia

Iceflower tracks 2,448 stores from 1,936 food & drink chains in District of Columbia. Call Your Mother Deli grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Ted's Bulletin and McDonald's.

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
1,936
Tracked stores
2,448
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. Call Your Mother Deli and Ted's Bulletin sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Call Your Mother Deli ▲2 +13.7%
2 Ted's Bulletin ▲2 +13.2%
3 McDonald's - +8.2%
4 Ben & Jerry's - +8.1%
5 Dolcezza ▲1 +7.1%
6 Yum's ▲2 +6.8%
7 Blue Bottle Coffee ▲1 +6.5%
8 CAVA ▲2 +5.7%
9 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲1 +5.6%
10 YELLOW ▲3 +5.0%
11 Surfside ▲2 +4.3%
12 Tatte Bakery & Cafe ▲2 +3.2%
13 Taco Bell ▲3 +3.2%
14 Panda Express ▲2 +2.7%
15 Milk & Honey Southern Inspired Kitchen ▲2 +2.3%

Store footprint

Store map

2,448 tracked store locations in District of Columbia, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 175 of the 2,448 stores (7%); 1,778 of the 1,936 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked food & drink stores here are burger chains, against 7% across the United States.

Top tracked chains by store count

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