Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in New York

Iceflower tracks 14,153 stores from 8,708 food & drink chains in New York. Dave's Hot Chicken grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Maman and Papa John's Pizza.

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
8,708
Tracked stores
14,153
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. Dave's Hot Chicken and Maman sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Dave's Hot Chicken logo Dave's Hot Chicken ▲7 +19.0%
2 M Maman logo Maman ▲4 +18.9%
3 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲13 +17.9%
4 C Cam's Pizzeria ▲6 +16.8%
5 C Charleys Cheesesteaks logo Charleys Cheesesteaks ▲8 +16.8%
6 I I Love NY Pizza ▲7 +15.6%
7 J Junior's ▲4 +14.9%
8 T Tai Chi Bubble Tea logo Tai Chi Bubble Tea ▲10 +14.5%
9 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲13 +14.2%
10 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +10.7%
11 C Chuck E. Cheese logo Chuck E. Cheese ▲5 +10.5%
12 P Playa Bowls logo Playa Bowls ▲3 +9.8%
13 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲3 +9.5%
14 V Van Leeuwen Ice Cream logo Van Leeuwen Ice Cream ▲4 +9.4%
15 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden ▲3 +9.3%

Store footprint

Store map

14,153 tracked store locations in New York, colored by category.

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