Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO

Iceflower tracks 1,073 stores from 763 food & drink chains in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Subway and Dairy Queen.

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
763
Tracked stores
1,073
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. Panda Express and Subway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Panda Express ▲2 +14.6%
2 Subway ▲1 +13.7%
3 Dairy Queen ▲1 +11.2%
4 Firehouse Subs ▲2 +8.4%
5 First Watch ▲2 +7.6%
6 Papa John's Pizza ▲2 +6.9%
7 Starbucks - +6.8%
8 Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲2 +4.2%
9 Chick-fil-A - +0.9%
10 Taco Bell ▲1 -0.7%
11 Fuzzy's Taco Shop - -2.7%
12 Mary's Mountain Cookies ▲1 -4.6%
13 Pizza Hut ▲1 -9.2%
14 Cheba Hut "Toasted" Subs - -9.5%
15 Jimmy John's ▲1 -12.0%

Store footprint

Store map

1,073 tracked store locations in Fort Collins-Loveland, CO, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 97 of the 1,073 stores (9%); 650 of the 763 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked food & drink stores here are Mexican restaurants & taquerias, against 9% across Colorado.

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