Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Fairbanks-College, AK

Iceflower tracks 215 stores from 192 food & drink chains in Fairbanks-College, AK. Sunrise Bagel & Espresso grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Starbucks 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
192
Tracked stores
215
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. Sunrise Bagel & Espresso and Starbucks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sunrise Bagel & Espresso - +5.6%
2 Starbucks - +0.9%
3 McDonald's - -0.4%
4 Taco Bell - -14.2%
5 Papa Murphy's - -20.4%
6 Papa John's Pizza - -30.3%
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino & Hawaiian
  • Casual Dining
  • Burger Chains
  • Other restaurants
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

215 tracked store locations in Fairbanks-College, AK, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 17 of the 215 stores (8%); 178 of the 192 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked food & drink stores here are Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino & Hawaiian, against 4% across Alaska.

  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes (30)
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (21)
  • Thai, Vietnamese, Filipino & Hawaiian (19)
  • Casual Dining (18)
  • Burger Chains (13)
  • Other restaurants (12)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (11)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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