Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Manchester

Iceflower tracks 4,275 stores from 3,115 food & drink chains in Manchester. Wingstop grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Slug and Lettuce and The Red Lion.

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
3,115
Tracked stores
4,275
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. Wingstop and Slug and Lettuce sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Wingstop logo Wingstop ▲7 +18.9%
2 S Slug and Lettuce logo Slug and Lettuce ▲6 +18.3%
3 T The Red Lion ▲6 +16.6%
4 T The Railway ▲6 +16.1%
5 G Greenhalgh's logo Greenhalgh's ▲3 +13.3%
6 T The Royal Oak ▲6 +12.3%
7 T The Bulls Head ▲2 +11.8%
8 P Pret A Manger logo Pret A Manger - +10.3%
9 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲2 +8.6%
10 B Bella Italia logo Bella Italia ▲6 +8.4%
11 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero ▲2 +6.9%
12 M Miller & Carter logo Miller & Carter ▲2 +6.3%
13 C Cake Box logo Cake Box - +5.8%
14 T The Wheatsheaf ▲2 +4.0%
15 C Cha Cha Chai ▲1 +3.9%

Store footprint

Store map

4,275 tracked store locations in Manchester, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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