Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Jacksonville, NC

Iceflower tracks 461 stores from 333 food & drink chains in Jacksonville, NC. Starbucks grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries and Arby'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
333
Tracked stores
461
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 Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Starbucks ▲1 +17.8%
2 Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries ▲2 +13.9%
3 Arby's ▲3 +12.6%
4 Bojangles' ▼1 +11.4%
5 Waffle House ▲1 +11.0%
6 Burger King ▲1 +9.7%
7 Dunkin' - +7.6%
8 Chick-fil-A ▲1 +1.4%
9 Papa John's Pizza ▼1 -2.1%
10 McDonald's - -2.2%
11 Jersey Mike's Subs - -2.4%
12 Dairy Queen - -3.4%
13 Burrito Shak - -4.1%
14 Hardee's - -4.3%
15 Sonic Drive-In ▼1 -8.6%

Store footprint

Store map

461 tracked store locations in Jacksonville, NC, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 58 of the 461 stores (13%); 296 of the 333 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked food & drink stores here are Mexican restaurants & taquerias, against 6% across North Carolina.

Top tracked chains by store count

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