Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Fort Wayne, IN

Iceflower tracks 1,068 stores from 700 food & drink chains in Fort Wayne, IN. Subway grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chick-fil-A and Dunkin'.

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
700
Tracked stores
1,068
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. Subway and Chick-fil-A sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Subway ▲2 +16.3%
2 Chick-fil-A ▲1 +16.1%
3 Dunkin' ▲2 +14.8%
4 Biggby Coffee ▲3 +12.0%
5 Steak 'n Shake ▲2 +11.6%
6 Culver's ▲1 +9.9%
7 Baba's Steak and Lemonade ▲2 +6.8%
8 Panera Bread ▲4 +5.4%
9 Auntie Anne's ▲1 +5.4%
10 Burger King ▲3 +4.7%
11 Zesto ▲3 +4.2%
12 Salsa Grille ▲3 +3.5%
13 IHOP ▲2 +2.3%
14 Qdoba ▲1 +2.1%
15 Jimmy John's - +0.3%

Store footprint

Store map

1,068 tracked store locations in Fort Wayne, IN, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 119 of the 1,068 stores (11%); 608 of the 700 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked food & drink stores here are pizzerias, against 6% across Indiana.

Top tracked chains by store count

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