Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Dubuque, IA

Iceflower tracks 206 stores from 178 food & drink chains in Dubuque, IA. Dairy Queen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Jimmy John's 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
178
Tracked stores
206
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 Jimmy John's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dairy Queen - +8.7%
2 Jimmy John's ▲1 +7.5%
3 McDonald's - +4.0%
4 Happy Joe's Pizza ▼1 -3.7%
5 Subway - -11.2%

Store footprint

Store map

206 tracked store locations in Dubuque, IA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 23 of the 206 stores (11%); 163 of the 178 tracked chains have a single store here. 15% of the tracked food & drink stores here are casual dining, against 9% across Iowa.

  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (32)
  • Casual Dining (30)
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes (22)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (16)
  • Burger Chains (15)
  • Other restaurants (13)
  • Pizza Chains (12)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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