Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Grand Forks, ND-MN

Iceflower tracks 175 stores from 128 food & drink chains in Grand Forks, ND-MN. Starbucks grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dairy Queen and McDonald's.

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
128
Tracked stores
175
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. Starbucks and Dairy Queen sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Starbucks ▲2 +12.7%
2 Dairy Queen - +8.3%
3 McDonald's - +6.8%
4 Burger King - -1.2%
5 Caribou Coffee ▼1 -2.8%
6 Jimmy John's - -7.8%
7 Subway ▼1 -11.4%
8 Domino's Pizza - -18.5%
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Burger Chains
  • Pizza Chains
  • Coffee Chains
  • Casual Dining
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

175 tracked store locations in Grand Forks, ND-MN, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 31 of the 175 stores (18%); 108 of the 128 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked food & drink stores here are pizza chains, against 5% across North Dakota.

  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (24)
  • Burger Chains (16)
  • Pizza Chains (15)
  • Coffee Chains (15)
  • Casual Dining (14)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (13)
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes (10)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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