Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in New Haven, CT

Iceflower tracks 1,635 stores from 1,276 food & drink chains in New Haven, CT. Chick-fil-A grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chipotle Mexican Grill and Common Grounds.

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
1,276
Tracked stores
1,635
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. Chick-fil-A and Chipotle Mexican Grill sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Chick-fil-A - +15.4%
2 Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲1 +11.1%
3 Common Grounds ▲2 +6.2%
4 Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +6.1%
5 Burger King - +6.0%
6 Dunkin' - +5.3%
7 McDonald's - +4.2%
8 Dairy Queen ▲1 +3.1%
9 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲1 +2.1%
10 Starbucks - +0.6%
11 Sbarro ▲1 +0.6%
12 Chili's Grill & Bar - +0.5%
13 IHOP - +0.3%
14 Taco Bell - -0.3%
15 Domino's Pizza ▲1 -1.3%

Store footprint

Store map

1,635 tracked store locations in New Haven, CT, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 180 of the 1,635 stores (11%); 1,182 of the 1,276 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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