Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Paducah, KY-IL

Iceflower tracks 222 stores from 190 food & drink chains in Paducah, KY-IL. Dairy Queen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McDonald's and Sonic Drive-In.

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
190
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 +8.5%
2 McDonald's - +3.1%
3 Sonic Drive-In ▲1 -3.1%
4 Taco John's - -3.2%
5 Burger King - -3.7%
6 Domino's Pizza - -13.6%
7 Wendy's ▼2 -16.1%
  • Burger Chains
  • Casual Dining
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes
  • Other restaurants
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

222 tracked store locations in Paducah, KY-IL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 20 of the 222 stores (9%); 171 of the 190 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked food & drink stores here are cafes & bakery-cafes, against 5% across Kentucky.

  • Burger Chains (25)
  • Casual Dining (23)
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias (17)
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes (16)
  • Other restaurants (14)
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (13)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (13)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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