Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Macon-Bibb County, GA

Iceflower tracks 488 stores from 341 food & drink chains in Macon-Bibb County, GA. Firehouse Subs grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chick-fil-A 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
341
Tracked stores
488
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. Firehouse Subs and Chick-fil-A sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Firehouse Subs - +15.0%
2 Chick-fil-A - +10.3%
3 Little Caesars ▲2 +10.1%
4 Starbucks ▲2 +4.0%
5 Waffle House - +2.6%
6 Burger King ▲1 +1.5%
7 McDonald's - -1.1%
8 Zaxby's - -3.4%
9 Dunkin' - -4.1%
10 Subway ▲1 -4.3%
11 Papa John's Pizza - -4.5%
12 Dairy Queen - -5.7%
13 Chen's Wok - -6.5%
14 Huddle House - -8.7%
15 Arby's ▼1 -9.1%

Store footprint

Store map

488 tracked store locations in Macon-Bibb County, GA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 55 of the 488 stores (11%); 297 of the 341 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked food & drink stores here are family restaurants & diners, against 4% across Georgia.

Top tracked chains by store count

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