Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Leicester

Iceflower tracks 954 stores from 715 food & drink chains in Leicester. Starbucks grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Red Lion and Caffè Nero.

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
715
Tracked stores
954
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 Red Lion sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - +11.5%
2 R Red Lion ▲3 +11.5%
3 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero ▲2 +3.6%
4 G Greggs logo Greggs - 0.0%
5 M Milners Bakery - -1.7%
6 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲1 -1.7%
7 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -1.9%
8 E Everards Brewery ▼1 -2.5%
9 C Costa Express logo Costa Express ▲1 -2.9%
10 B Birds Bakery - -5.0%
11 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee - -6.6%
12 T The Railway ▼2 -7.0%
13 K KFC logo KFC - -13.8%
14 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 -17.5%
15 T The Black Horse ▲1 -18.9%

Store footprint

Store map

954 tracked store locations in Leicester, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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