Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Rochester, NY

Iceflower tracks 1,974 stores from 1,347 food & drink chains in Rochester, NY. Bruster's Real Ice Cream grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Jeremiah's Tavern and Caraglio's Pizza.

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
1,347
Tracked stores
1,974
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. Bruster's Real Ice Cream and Jeremiah's Tavern sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Bruster's Real Ice Cream ▲3 +15.5%
2 Jeremiah's Tavern ▲3 +11.6%
3 Caraglio's Pizza ▲2 +10.8%
4 Chili's Grill & Bar ▲3 +10.7%
5 Red Robin Gourmet Burgers ▲4 +10.3%
6 Panera Bread ▲2 +10.2%
7 Tim Hortons - +7.5%
8 Auntie Anne's ▲2 +7.3%
9 Salvatore's Old Fashioned Pizzeria - +6.8%
10 Village Bakery & Cafe ▲2 +6.7%
11 Seasoning Thai Bistro ▲3 +5.4%
12 Burger King - +5.0%
13 The Distillery ▲3 +4.7%
14 Mark's Pizzeria - +4.6%
15 Chick-fil-A ▲1 +4.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,974 tracked store locations in Rochester, NY, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 233 of the 1,974 stores (12%); 1,234 of the 1,347 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked food & drink stores here are bakeries, donuts & desserts, against 5% across New York.

Top tracked chains by store count

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