Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT

Iceflower tracks 2,958 stores from 2,094 food & drink chains in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Giovanni's Pizza and LongHorn Steakhouse.

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
2,094
Tracked stores
2,958
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. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and Giovanni's Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲2 +16.5%
2 Giovanni's Pizza ▲2 +9.6%
3 LongHorn Steakhouse ▲1 +6.1%
4 Wood-n-Tap - +5.4%
5 99 Restaurants ▲1 +4.9%
6 Buffalo Wild Wings ▲2 +3.9%
7 Munson's Chocolates ▲1 +3.1%
8 Chili's Grill & Bar ▲2 +1.5%
9 First & Last Tavern ▲1 +1.0%
10 Chick-fil-A - +0.9%
11 Square Peg Pizzeria ▲1 +0.8%
12 Dunkin' - +0.8%
13 Burger King ▲1 +0.4%
14 Subway ▲1 +0.2%
15 Mozzicato De Pasquale Bakery and Pastry Shop ▲2 -0.1%

Store footprint

Store map

2,958 tracked store locations in Hartford-West Hartford-East Hartford, CT, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 396 of the 2,958 stores (13%); 1,891 of the 2,094 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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