Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL

Iceflower tracks 608 stores from 463 food & drink chains in Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL. Subway grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Waffle House and Firehouse Subs.

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
463
Tracked stores
608
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. Subway and Waffle House sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Subway ▲1 +10.8%
2 Waffle House ▲3 +9.5%
3 Firehouse Subs ▲2 +7.7%
4 Chick-fil-A - +5.7%
5 Dunkin' ▲1 +5.4%
6 Dairy Queen ▲1 +4.7%
7 KFC - +3.5%
8 Domino's Pizza ▲1 +3.4%
9 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - +2.2%
10 Sonic Drive-In - +1.5%
11 Papa John's Pizza ▲1 +1.2%
12 Beef 'O' Brady's ▼1 -1.0%
13 Hungry Howie's Pizza ▲2 -1.7%
14 Arby's ▲2 -1.7%
15 Whataburger ▼2 -4.9%

Store footprint

Store map

608 tracked store locations in Panama City-Panama City Beach, FL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 50 of the 608 stores (8%); 404 of the 463 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked food & drink stores here are seafood & Cajun, against 3% across Florida.

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