Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Gadsden, AL

Iceflower tracks 224 stores from 172 food & drink chains in Gadsden, AL. Waffle House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burger King and Domino's Pizza.

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
172
Tracked stores
224
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. Waffle House and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Waffle House - +1.3%
2 Burger King ▲1 +0.3%
3 Domino's Pizza ▲2 -4.1%
4 McDonald's - -7.1%
5 Arby's ▲2 -10.3%
6 KFC - -15.3%
7 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▼1 -17.2%
8 Sonic Drive-In ▼3 -23.2%
9 Little Caesars ▼1 -23.9%
  • Burger Chains
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias
  • Casual Dining
  • Other restaurants
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

224 tracked store locations in Gadsden, AL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 30 of the 224 stores (13%); 148 of the 172 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked food & drink stores here are chicken & wings fast food, against 6% across Alabama.

  • Burger Chains (31)
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias (17)
  • Casual Dining (17)
  • Other restaurants (14)
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes (13)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (13)
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (12)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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