Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Gainesville, GA

Iceflower tracks 415 stores from 307 food & drink chains in Gainesville, GA. Subway grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dunkin' and Starbucks.

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
307
Tracked stores
415
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 Dunkin' sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Subway ▲1 +11.6%
2 Dunkin' ▲3 +9.0%
3 Starbucks ▲4 +7.9%
4 McDonald's - +5.9%
5 Burger King ▲3 +4.3%
6 Chick-fil-A - +2.9%
7 Waffle House - +1.6%
8 El Sombrero ▲1 -1.1%
9 Dairy Queen - -1.3%
10 Papa John's Pizza - -2.2%
11 Firehouse Subs - -2.7%
12 Danny's Donuts - -4.7%
13 Zaxby's - -5.8%
14 Whataburger ▼1 -6.8%
15 Arby's - -10.1%

Store footprint

Store map

415 tracked store locations in Gainesville, GA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 43 of the 415 stores (10%); 264 of the 307 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked food & drink stores here are Mexican restaurants & taquerias, against 6% across Georgia.

Top tracked chains by store count

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