Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Pennsylvania

Iceflower tracks 17,502 stores from 10,730 food & drink chains in Pennsylvania. CAVA grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Playa Bowls and Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers.

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
10,730
Tracked stores
17,502
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. CAVA and Playa Bowls sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲13 +18.1%
2 P Playa Bowls logo Playa Bowls ▲14 +17.6%
3 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲11 +17.4%
4 M Manhattan Bagel logo Manhattan Bagel ▲18 +15.3%
5 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +14.8%
6 T The Capital Grille logo The Capital Grille ▲10 +13.8%
7 L Long John Silver's logo Long John Silver's ▲13 +13.8%
8 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▲2 +13.3%
9 P Plaza Azteca logo Plaza Azteca ▲3 +12.7%
10 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲4 +12.7%
11 S Sedona Taphouse logo Sedona Taphouse ▲13 +12.1%
12 W Wingstop logo Wingstop ▲6 +11.4%
13 F Firebirds Wood Fired Grill logo Firebirds Wood Fired Grill ▲3 +10.9%
14 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▲6 +9.5%
15 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲3 +9.4%

Store footprint

Store map

17,502 tracked store locations in Pennsylvania, colored by category.

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