Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Pittsburgh, PA

Iceflower tracks 5,616 stores from 3,764 food & drink chains in Pittsburgh, PA. Long John Silver's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chili's Grill & Bar and Grandpa Joe's Candy Shop.

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
3,764
Tracked stores
5,616
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. Long John Silver's and Chili's Grill & Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Long John Silver's ▲7 +17.8%
2 Chili's Grill & Bar ▲3 +17.5%
3 Grandpa Joe's Candy Shop ▲5 +17.2%
4 Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard ▲6 +13.2%
5 Auntie Anne's ▲5 +11.0%
6 Bruster's Real Ice Cream ▲6 +10.2%
7 Commonplace Coffee ▲4 +10.1%
8 Aroma Joe's Coffee ▲6 +7.7%
9 Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲3 +7.4%
10 Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +6.9%
11 Dairy Queen - +6.9%
12 Pizza Roma ▲6 +5.6%
13 Red Lobster ▲5 +3.6%
14 Applebee's Grill + Bar - +3.6%
15 LongHorn Steakhouse ▲1 +3.4%

Store footprint

Store map

5,616 tracked store locations in Pittsburgh, PA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 468 of the 5,616 stores (8%); 3,438 of the 3,764 tracked chains have a single store here.

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