Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Greenville, NC

Iceflower tracks 411 stores from 306 food & drink chains in Greenville, NC. Sonic Drive-In grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries and Burger King.

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
306
Tracked stores
411
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. Sonic Drive-In and Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sonic Drive-In ▲1 +9.6%
2 Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries ▲1 +6.2%
3 Burger King ▲2 +5.9%
4 Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲1 +5.1%
5 Bojangles' - +3.7%
6 Dunkin' ▲1 +3.0%
7 Dairy Queen ▲1 +2.8%
8 Jersey Mike's Subs - +2.1%
9 Chick-fil-A - +0.3%
10 McDonald's - -0.9%
11 Chipotle Mexican Grill - -2.4%
12 Starbucks ▲1 -2.8%
13 Waffle House ▲1 -3.9%
14 Cook Out ▲1 -4.8%
15 Subway - -6.5%
  • Burger Chains
  • Casual Dining
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Chicken & Wings Fast Food
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes
  • Coffee Chains
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

411 tracked store locations in Greenville, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 47 of the 411 stores (11%); 268 of the 306 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked food & drink stores here are coffee chains, against 3% across North Carolina.

  • Burger Chains (39)
  • Casual Dining (39)
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (25)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (24)
  • Chicken & Wings Fast Food (24)
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes (23)
  • Coffee Chains (21)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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