Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Lake Charles, LA

Iceflower tracks 160 stores from 93 food & drink chains in Lake Charles, LA. Arby's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dairy Queen and McDonald'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
93
Tracked stores
160
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. Arby's and Dairy Queen sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Arby's logo Arby's - -0.8%
2 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen - -7.2%
3 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -12.7%
4 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲1 -16.5%
5 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 -18.4%
6 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▼2 -24.6%
7 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -25.2%
8 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -25.6%
9 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - -27.4%
10 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - -39.0%

Store footprint

Store map

160 tracked store locations in Lake Charles, LA, colored by category.

  • Fast Food Restaurant (56)
  • Restaurant (39)
  • Chicken Restaurant (14)
  • Casual Eatery (7)
  • Coffee Shop (7)
  • Breakfast Restaurant (6)
  • Sandwich Shop (6)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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