Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Montana

Iceflower tracks 2,490 stores from 1,821 food & drink chains in Montana. Ciao Mambo grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Pizza Ranch and Dickey's Barbecue Pit.

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
1,821
Tracked stores
2,490
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. Ciao Mambo and Pizza Ranch sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Ciao Mambo ▲4 +18.7%
2 Pizza Ranch ▲7 +17.6%
3 Dickey's Barbecue Pit ▲1 +14.7%
4 Little Caesars ▲3 +12.8%
5 Krispy Kreme ▲2 +11.8%
6 Chick-fil-A ▲2 +11.6%
7 Panda Express ▲1 +10.3%
8 Famous Dave's ▲4 +9.7%
9 Sweet Peaks Ice Cream ▲7 +9.1%
10 Five Guys ▲2 +8.6%
11 Burger King ▲1 +7.7%
12 Chipotle Mexican Grill - +7.4%
13 IHOP ▲1 +6.7%
14 Arby's ▲2 +6.1%
15 Starbucks - +6.1%

Store footprint

Store map

2,490 tracked store locations in Montana, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 212 of the 2,490 stores (9%); 1,678 of the 1,821 tracked chains have a single store here. 14% of the tracked food & drink stores here are cafes & bakery-cafes, against 6% across the United States.

Top tracked chains by store count

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