Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Fort Smith, AR-OK

Iceflower tracks 494 stores from 342 food & drink chains in Fort Smith, AR-OK. Chick-fil-A grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Little Caesars and Whataburger.

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
342
Tracked stores
494
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. Chick-fil-A and Little Caesars sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Chick-fil-A - +13.6%
2 Little Caesars ▲1 +13.6%
3 Whataburger - +10.8%
4 El Super Taco - +9.4%
5 Braum's Ice Cream & Burger Restaurant ▲1 +8.7%
6 Paizis Gyros ▲2 +8.3%
7 El Lorito - +5.7%
8 Firehouse Subs ▲2 +3.2%
9 Burger King ▲1 +2.6%
10 McDonald's - +0.8%
11 Arby's ▼1 -0.1%
12 Waffle House - -0.8%
13 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - -2.2%
14 Domino's Pizza ▲1 -2.7%
15 Taco Bell ▼1 -3.7%

Store footprint

Store map

494 tracked store locations in Fort Smith, AR-OK, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 63 of the 494 stores (13%); 294 of the 342 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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