Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA

Iceflower tracks 3,730 stores from 2,619 food & drink chains in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA. Baja's Fresh Grill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Classic Pizza and The Nest.

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
2,619
Tracked stores
3,730
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. Baja's Fresh Grill and Classic Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Baja's Fresh Grill - +17.1%
2 Classic Pizza ▲1 +12.1%
3 The Nest ▲3 +11.5%
4 Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers ▲2 +10.2%
5 Empire Tea & Coffee ▲2 +9.8%
6 Chick-fil-A ▲1 +9.6%
7 Auntie Anne's ▲3 +7.5%
8 Antonio's Pizza ▲1 +7.5%
9 LongHorn Steakhouse ▲3 +5.7%
10 Gansett Wraps - +5.7%
11 Five Guys ▲2 +4.9%
12 Texas Roadhouse - +2.7%
13 Panera Bread - +2.5%
14 Starbucks ▲1 +0.9%
15 Applebee's Grill + Bar - +0.8%

Store footprint

Store map

3,730 tracked store locations in Providence-Warwick, RI-MA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 480 of the 3,730 stores (13%); 2,413 of the 2,619 tracked chains have a single store here.

Top tracked chains by store count

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