Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI

Iceflower tracks 2,404 stores from 1,540 food & drink chains in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI. Brann's Steakhouse & Grille grew fastest over the last year, ahead of HopCat and Culver'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
1,540
Tracked stores
2,404
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. Brann's Steakhouse & Grille and HopCat sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Brann's Steakhouse & Grille ▲2 +18.0%
2 HopCat ▲2 +17.5%
3 Culver's ▲1 +16.9%
4 Pita Way ▲3 +16.1%
5 Jersey Mike's Subs ▲4 +15.2%
6 Auntie Anne's ▲4 +13.8%
7 Subway ▲2 +10.7%
8 Dairy Queen ▲4 +9.3%
9 Firehouse Subs - +9.1%
10 Marco's Pizza ▲7 +8.9%
11 Vitales ▲3 +6.3%
12 B.C. Pizza ▲3 +5.4%
13 Mancino's Pizza & Grinders - +4.1%
14 Uccello's Ristorante ▲2 +3.6%
15 Panda Express ▲3 +3.5%

Store footprint

Store map

2,404 tracked store locations in Grand Rapids-Wyoming-Kentwood, MI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 265 of the 2,404 stores (11%); 1,365 of the 1,540 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked food & drink stores here are Mexican restaurants & taquerias, against 4% across Michigan.

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