Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Gainesville, FL

Iceflower tracks 821 stores from 602 food & drink chains in Gainesville, FL. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Los Avina Mexican Restaurant and Mi Apa Latin Cafe.

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
602
Tracked stores
821
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 Los Avina Mexican Restaurant sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Panda Express ▲1 +12.8%
2 Los Avina Mexican Restaurant ▲3 +10.8%
3 Mi Apa Latin Cafe - +6.9%
4 KFC ▲1 +6.4%
5 Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +5.3%
6 Waffle House ▲2 +4.0%
7 Firehouse Subs - +2.7%
8 Opus Coffee ▲1 +2.7%
9 Burger King - +1.3%
10 McDonald's - +1.2%
11 Arby's ▲1 -0.2%
12 Sonny's BBQ - -0.5%
13 Starbucks - -1.1%
14 Domino's Pizza - -1.5%
15 Five Star Pizza ▼1 -1.6%

Store footprint

Store map

821 tracked store locations in Gainesville, FL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 89 of the 821 stores (11%); 536 of the 602 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked food & drink stores here are sandwich & sub shops, against 5% across Florida.

Top tracked chains by store count

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