Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Lincoln

Iceflower tracks 439 stores from 361 food & drink chains in Lincoln. Greggs grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Royal Oak and Costa Coffee.

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
361
Tracked stores
439
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. Greggs and The Royal Oak sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Greggs logo Greggs - +18.3%
2 T The Royal Oak - +7.9%
3 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲1 +4.1%
4 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +0.9%
5 K KFC logo KFC - -0.5%
6 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero - -7.5%
7 T The Plough - -8.8%
8 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza - -20.0%
9 B Burger King logo Burger King - -25.3%
10 S Subway logo Subway ▼1 -30.3%

Store footprint

Store map

439 tracked store locations in Lincoln, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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