Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Joplin, MO-KS

Iceflower tracks 373 stores from 258 food & drink chains in Joplin, MO-KS. Dairy Queen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McDonald's 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
258
Tracked stores
373
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. Dairy Queen and McDonald's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dairy Queen ▲1 +15.6%
2 McDonald's - +6.3%
3 Arby's ▲1 +6.3%
4 Chick-fil-A - +5.2%
5 Starbucks - +2.6%
6 Burger King - +1.3%
7 Taco Bell - -2.8%
8 Wendy's - -3.6%
9 Denny's - -6.1%
10 Subway ▼1 -7.4%
11 Domino's Pizza ▼1 -8.6%
12 Sonic Drive-In - -9.6%
13 Pizza Hut ▲2 -12.2%
14 Little Caesars - -13.1%
15 Jimmy John's - -22.2%
  • Burger Chains
  • Casual Dining
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes
  • Pizza Chains
  • Other restaurants
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

373 tracked store locations in Joplin, MO-KS, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 54 of the 373 stores (14%); 220 of the 258 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked food & drink stores here are bars, pubs & breweries, against 9% across Missouri.

  • Burger Chains (53)
  • Casual Dining (33)
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias (26)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (26)
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes (25)
  • Pizza Chains (23)
  • Other restaurants (22)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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