Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Montgomery, AL

Iceflower tracks 780 stores from 504 food & drink chains in Montgomery, AL. Burger King grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Panera Bread and Five Guys.

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
504
Tracked stores
780
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. Burger King and Panera Bread sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Burger King ▲1 +14.1%
2 Panera Bread - +13.0%
3 Five Guys ▲1 +11.0%
4 Chappy's Deli ▲2 +8.4%
5 Waffle House ▲1 +5.8%
6 Jimmy John's - +4.8%
7 Little Caesars ▲3 +4.7%
8 McDonald's - +2.9%
9 Church's Chicken ▲2 +2.4%
10 Dairy Queen ▲2 +2.1%
11 Starbucks ▲1 +1.7%
12 Chick-fil-A - +1.7%
13 Jack's - +1.6%
14 Wingstop ▲1 +1.1%
15 Zaxby's - -0.9%

Store footprint

Store map

780 tracked store locations in Montgomery, AL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 78 of the 780 stores (10%); 428 of the 504 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked food & drink stores here are chicken & wings fast food, against 6% across Alabama.

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