Food & Drink Trends in Monroe, LA 2026

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. Burger King and Subway sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Burger King	▲1	+15.8%
2	Subway	-	+10.6%
3	KFC	▲2	+10.3%
4	Waffle House	▲1	+5.5%
5	Smoothie King	-	+3.9%
6	Wendy's	-	-8.3%
7	Starbucks	-	-8.4%
8	Domino's Pizza	-	-8.5%
9	Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen	▼1	-9.4%
10	McDonald's	-	-11.3%
11	Sonic Drive-In	-	-11.3%
12	Newk's Eatery	-	-12.2%
13	Johnny's Pizza House	-	-12.3%
14	Little Caesars	▼2	-12.3%
15	Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers	-	-17.1%

Burger Chains
Casual Dining
Pizza Chains
Chicken & Wings Fast Food
Bakeries, Donuts & Desserts
Family Restaurants & Diners
Seafood & Cajun
Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

337 tracked store locations in Monroe, LA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 55 of the 337 stores (16%); 183 of the 225 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked food & drink stores here are family restaurants & diners, against 3% across Louisiana.