Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Kentucky

Iceflower tracks 6,718 stores from 3,024 food & drink chains in Kentucky. Little Caesars grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Nothing Bundt Cakes and Frisch's Big Boy.

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
3,024
Tracked stores
6,718
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. Little Caesars and Nothing Bundt Cakes sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲7 +19.9%
2 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲8 +18.5%
3 F Frisch's Big Boy logo Frisch's Big Boy ▲8 +18.3%
4 B Baskin-Robbins logo Baskin-Robbins ▲12 +17.9%
5 L Long John Silver's logo Long John Silver's ▲9 +15.5%
6 C China Buffet ▲2 +14.7%
7 C Colton's Steak House & Grill ▲6 +14.7%
8 F Fiesta Mexicana ▲2 +14.4%
9 C Casey's logo Casey's ▲3 +14.2%
10 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲2 +14.0%
11 D Derby City Pizza Co. logo Derby City Pizza Co. ▲10 +14.0%
12 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲4 +13.3%
13 H Hot Head Burritos logo Hot Head Burritos ▲4 +13.1%
14 B Biggby Coffee logo Biggby Coffee ▲6 +13.1%
15 W Wings and Rings logo Wings and Rings ▲4 +12.8%

Store footprint

Store map

6,718 tracked store locations in Kentucky, colored by category.

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