Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Fayetteville, NC

Iceflower tracks 815 stores from 533 food & drink chains in Fayetteville, NC. Jimmy John's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cook Out and Tropical Smoothie Cafe.

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
533
Tracked stores
815
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. Jimmy John's and Cook Out sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Jimmy John's ▲1 +17.5%
2 Cook Out ▲1 +12.4%
3 Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲3 +11.6%
4 Firehouse Subs - +10.1%
5 Burger King ▲2 +6.4%
6 Applebee's Grill + Bar ▲3 +5.9%
7 Starbucks ▲1 +5.1%
8 Panda Express ▲1 +3.5%
9 Jersey Mike's Subs - +3.3%
10 Dairy Queen - +3.1%
11 Chick-fil-A - +2.1%
12 Zaxby's - +0.8%
13 KFC ▲1 +0.3%
14 Bojangles' ▲1 -0.5%
15 Arby's - -0.6%

Store footprint

Store map

815 tracked store locations in Fayetteville, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 82 of the 815 stores (10%); 465 of the 533 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked food & drink stores here are bars, pubs & breweries, against 9% across North Carolina.

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