Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Richmond, VA

Iceflower tracks 2,862 stores from 1,842 food & drink chains in Richmond, VA. Sedona Taphouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Nothing Bundt Cakes and Plaza Azteca.

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
1,842
Tracked stores
2,862
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. Sedona Taphouse and Nothing Bundt Cakes sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Sedona Taphouse ▲4 +19.7%
2 Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲3 +18.5%
3 Plaza Azteca ▲9 +17.4%
4 Peking Restaurant ▲2 +12.6%
5 Cicis Pizza ▲1 +12.4%
6 sweetFrog Premium Frozen Yogurt ▲1 +10.6%
7 Bruster's Real Ice Cream ▲1 +10.2%
8 El Caporal ▲2 +9.8%
9 Wong's Tacos ▲1 +9.5%
10 Burger King - +8.7%
11 Panda Express ▲4 +8.5%
12 Chili's Grill & Bar ▲3 +8.1%
13 Auntie Anne's ▲2 +8.1%
14 Qdoba ▲4 +7.4%
15 CAVA ▲4 +7.1%

Store footprint

Store map

2,862 tracked store locations in Richmond, VA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 263 of the 2,862 stores (9%); 1,646 of the 1,842 tracked chains have a single store here.

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