Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Manchester

Iceflower tracks 3,474 stores from 2,417 food & drink chains in Manchester. The Grapes grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dixy Chicken and Archie's.

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
2,417
Tracked stores
3,474
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. The Grapes and Dixy Chicken sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Grapes ▲7 +13.3%
2 D Dixy Chicken ▲6 +13.3%
3 A Archie's ▲2 +13.3%
4 C Chaiiwala logo Chaiiwala ▲5 +11.4%
5 P Pepe's ▲4 +10.7%
6 G GAIL's ▲5 +9.3%
7 C Cake Box logo Cake Box ▲2 +8.9%
8 R Rhode Island Coffee ▲4 +8.8%
9 K KFC logo KFC - +6.1%
10 P Pizza Express ▲3 +5.6%
11 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero ▲3 +4.0%
12 T Tim Hortons logo Tim Hortons ▲2 +3.6%
13 G Greggs logo Greggs - +3.3%
14 T The Church Inn ▲2 +3.2%
15 Z Zizzi ▲1 +2.8%

Store footprint

Store map

3,474 tracked store locations in Manchester, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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