Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI

Iceflower tracks 3,856 stores from 2,720 food & drink chains in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI. Nothing Bundt Cakes grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Jersey Mike's Subs and Chili's Grill & Bar.

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
2,720
Tracked stores
3,856
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. Nothing Bundt Cakes and Jersey Mike's Subs sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲3 +16.8%
2 Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +13.5%
3 Chili's Grill & Bar ▲3 +11.9%
4 King's Wok ▲4 +11.7%
5 Panda Express ▲1 +8.0%
6 Dunkin' - +7.7%
7 Stone Creek Coffee ▲2 +7.4%
8 Burger King - +7.4%
9 Firehouse Subs ▲3 +6.8%
10 Fiddleheads Coffee ▲2 +5.3%
11 Culver's - +4.9%
12 Subway ▲4 +4.1%
13 Five Guys ▲1 +4.0%
14 Texas Roadhouse ▲1 +3.7%
15 George Webb Restaurant ▲2 +3.3%

Store footprint

Store map

3,856 tracked store locations in Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 345 of the 3,856 stores (9%); 2,505 of the 2,720 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked food & drink stores here are casual dining, against 11% across Wisconsin.

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