Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in New Orleans-Metairie, LA

Iceflower tracks 1,341 stores from 890 food & drink chains in New Orleans-Metairie, LA. El Paso Mexican Grill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chick-fil-A and KFC.

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
890
Tracked stores
1,341
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. El Paso Mexican Grill and Chick-fil-A sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E El Paso Mexican Grill logo El Paso Mexican Grill - +18.0%
2 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +16.6%
3 K KFC logo KFC ▲2 +16.5%
4 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes - +16.2%
5 C Checkers and Rally's logo Checkers and Rally's ▲1 +16.1%
6 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲3 +15.2%
7 J Joe's Cafe ▲2 +11.5%
8 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲2 +10.7%
9 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲2 +7.7%
10 J Jimmy John's logo Jimmy John's ▼1 +6.9%
11 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲2 +5.9%
12 F Fiery Crab logo Fiery Crab ▲1 +4.7%
13 R Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers logo Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers ▲1 +4.7%
14 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's ▼1 +3.6%
15 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +3.6%

Store footprint

Store map

1,341 tracked store locations in New Orleans-Metairie, LA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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