Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Owensboro, KY

Iceflower tracks 222 stores from 181 food & drink chains in Owensboro, KY. Dairy Queen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McDonald's and Burger King.

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
181
Tracked stores
222
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. Dairy Queen and McDonald's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dairy Queen ▲1 +0.7%
2 McDonald's - -1.7%
3 Burger King - -4.3%
4 Arby's - -5.2%
5 Little Caesars ▼1 -14.0%
6 Starbucks - -17.0%
  • Casual Dining
  • Burger Chains
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Other restaurants
  • Pizzerias
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

222 tracked store locations in Owensboro, KY, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 23 of the 222 stores (10%); 157 of the 181 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked food & drink stores here are pizzerias, against 4% across Kentucky.

  • Casual Dining (23)
  • Burger Chains (19)
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias (18)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (16)
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (14)
  • Other restaurants (13)
  • Pizzerias (12)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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