Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Portland-South Portland, ME

Iceflower tracks 1,783 stores from 1,412 food & drink chains in Portland-South Portland, ME. Friendly's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Mister Bagel and Applebee's Grill + Bar.

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
1,412
Tracked stores
1,783
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. Friendly's and Mister Bagel sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Friendly's - +9.6%
2 Mister Bagel ▲1 +8.9%
3 Applebee's Grill + Bar ▲1 +7.7%
4 OTTO - +7.7%
5 Aroma Joe's Coffee - +6.1%
6 Firehouse Subs ▲1 +5.5%
7 China Taste ▲1 +4.0%
8 Five Guys - +3.9%
9 Amato's ▲1 +3.4%
10 Jersey Mike's Subs - +3.3%
11 Brickyard Hollow Brewing Company ▲1 +2.3%
12 Chipotle Mexican Grill - +2.2%
13 Dunkin' - +1.1%
14 Burger King - +0.4%
15 Starbucks - +0.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,783 tracked store locations in Portland-South Portland, ME, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 167 of the 1,783 stores (9%); 1,319 of the 1,412 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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