Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Lynchburg, VA

Iceflower tracks 539 stores from 390 food & drink chains in Lynchburg, VA. Waffle House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chick-fil-A and Market at Main.

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
390
Tracked stores
539
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. Waffle House and Chick-fil-A sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Waffle House ▲1 +3.5%
2 Chick-fil-A - +2.9%
3 Market at Main ▲2 +1.3%
4 Dairy Queen - -0.1%
5 Bojangles' - -0.5%
6 Burger King - -0.6%
7 Dunkin' ▲1 -0.9%
8 Arby's ▼1 -1.2%
9 La Carreta - -1.4%
10 Hardee's ▲2 -1.4%
11 McDonald's - -2.0%
12 El Cazador - -2.4%
13 Chipotle Mexican Grill - -3.3%
14 Biscuitville ▲1 -3.5%
15 Jersey Mike's Subs - -3.8%

Store footprint

Store map

539 tracked store locations in Lynchburg, VA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 62 of the 539 stores (12%); 347 of the 390 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked food & drink stores here are cafes & bakery-cafes, against 6% across Virginia.

Top tracked chains by store count

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