Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Lawrence, KS

Iceflower tracks 273 stores from 230 food & drink chains in Lawrence, KS. Burger King grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chipotle Mexican Grill and Little Caesars.

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
230
Tracked stores
273
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. Burger King and Chipotle Mexican Grill sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Burger King ▲1 +6.8%
2 Chipotle Mexican Grill - +6.1%
3 Little Caesars - +5.2%
4 Jimmy John's - +4.0%
5 Subway ▼1 +1.7%
6 Scooter's Coffee - +1.3%
7 Dairy Queen - +0.8%
8 McDonald's - +0.4%
9 Sonic Drive-In - -0.4%
10 Starbucks - -4.6%
11 Wendy's - -16.4%
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes
  • Burger Chains
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Other restaurants
  • Casual Dining
  • Bakeries, Donuts & Desserts
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

273 tracked store locations in Lawrence, KS, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 23 of the 273 stores (8%); 207 of the 230 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked food & drink stores here are cafes & bakery-cafes, against 6% across Kansas.

  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (33)
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes (29)
  • Burger Chains (26)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (19)
  • Other restaurants (16)
  • Casual Dining (14)
  • Bakeries, Donuts & Desserts (14)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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