Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Preston

Iceflower tracks 646 stores from 535 food & drink chains in Preston. Starbucks grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Wheatsheaf and McDonald's.

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
535
Tracked stores
646
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. Starbucks and The Wheatsheaf sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲1 +17.4%
2 T The Wheatsheaf - +6.1%
3 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +3.4%
4 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee - +0.4%
5 T The Plough - -0.8%
6 U Upper Crust ▲1 -3.1%
7 K KFC logo KFC - -5.3%
8 G Greenhalgh's logo Greenhalgh's - -7.9%
9 G Greggs logo Greggs - -8.9%
10 P Poundbakery logo Poundbakery ▼1 -10.2%
11 B Burger King logo Burger King - -13.7%
12 S Subway logo Subway ▼1 -20.9%

Store footprint

Store map

646 tracked store locations in Preston, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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