Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Erie, PA

Iceflower tracks 574 stores from 438 food & drink chains in Erie, PA. Little Caesars grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dairy Queen and Starbucks.

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
438
Tracked stores
574
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. Little Caesars and Dairy Queen sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Little Caesars ▲1 +14.3%
2 Dairy Queen ▲1 +13.8%
3 Starbucks ▲1 +9.3%
4 Bob Evans ▲1 +6.4%
5 Dunkin' ▲1 +6.0%
6 Jersey Mike's Subs - +5.9%
7 Burger King ▼1 +5.6%
8 Applebee's Grill + Bar ▲1 +5.0%
9 Pizza Hut ▲1 +3.2%
10 Tim Hortons ▲1 +3.0%
11 Chipotle Mexican Grill - +0.1%
12 Panera Bread ▼1 +0.1%
13 Perkins American Food Co. ▼1 -0.0%
14 McDonald's - -0.1%
15 Arby's - -1.2%

Store footprint

Store map

574 tracked store locations in Erie, PA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 66 of the 574 stores (11%); 402 of the 438 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked food & drink stores here are pizzerias, against 9% across Pennsylvania.

Top tracked chains by store count

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