Food & Drink Trends in Louisiana 2026

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. Panera Bread and Cafe Beignet sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Panera Bread	▲11	+18.5%
2	Cafe Beignet	▲4	+18.4%
3	Olive Garden	▲4	+17.4%
4	Sam's Southern Eatery	▲6	+16.4%
5	Smalls Sliders	▲4	+16.4%
6	CAVA	▲6	+15.3%
7	Nothing Bundt Cakes	▲11	+15.1%
8	Off The Hook	▲6	+13.8%
9	Ruth's Chris Steak House	▲3	+13.7%
10	BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse	▲8	+11.8%
11	Lit Pizza	▲7	+11.6%
12	Panda Express	▲1	+10.1%
13	Flying Heart Brewing & Pub	▲6	+9.7%
14	Chick-fil-A	-	+9.4%
15	Hooters	▲1	+9.2%

Store footprint

Store map

8,842 tracked store locations in Louisiana, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 937 of the 8,842 stores (11%); 4,585 of the 5,101 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked food & drink stores here are seafood & Cajun, against 2% across the United States.