Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Gainesville, FL

Iceflower tracks 613 stores from 442 food & drink chains in Gainesville, FL. Five Star Pizza grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Mi Apa Latin Cafe and Little Caesars.

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
442
Tracked stores
613
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. Five Star Pizza and Mi Apa Latin Cafe sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F Five Star Pizza logo Five Star Pizza ▲2 +15.6%
2 M Mi Apa Latin Cafe logo Mi Apa Latin Cafe ▲2 +10.3%
3 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲2 +8.4%
4 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▲1 +2.7%
5 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲2 +2.3%
6 Z Zaxby's logo Zaxby's ▲3 +2.1%
7 S Smoothie King logo Smoothie King ▲1 +1.5%
8 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +1.1%
9 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -0.2%
10 S Sonny's BBQ logo Sonny's BBQ - -0.4%
11 J Jimmy John's logo Jimmy John's - -0.4%
12 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲1 -0.5%
13 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▼1 -1.8%
14 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▲1 -1.9%
15 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - -2.0%

Store footprint

Store map

613 tracked store locations in Gainesville, FL, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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