Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN

Iceflower tracks 5,042 stores from 2,775 food & drink chains in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN. Shake Shack grew fastest over the last year, ahead of 3 Agaves Mexican Restaurant and Panera Bread.

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
2,775
Tracked stores
5,042
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. Shake Shack and 3 Agaves Mexican Restaurant sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Shake Shack ▲13 +19.2%
2 3 Agaves Mexican Restaurant ▲8 +16.3%
3 Panera Bread ▲4 +13.8%
4 Tinker Coffee ▲7 +12.8%
5 Piada Italian Street Food ▲10 +11.8%
6 Waffle House ▲5 +8.9%
7 LongHorn Steakhouse ▲1 +8.9%
8 Culver's - +8.7%
9 Greek's Pizzeria ▲6 +8.3%
10 Chili's Grill & Bar ▲1 +7.4%
11 Handel's Homemade Ice Cream ▲7 +7.0%
12 La Hacienda ▲6 +6.2%
13 Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲3 +5.7%
14 Long John Silver's ▲7 +5.4%
15 Qdoba - +5.3%

Store footprint

Store map

5,042 tracked store locations in Indianapolis-Carmel-Greenwood, IN, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 536 of the 5,042 stores (11%); 2,401 of the 2,775 tracked chains have a single store here.

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