Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA

Iceflower tracks 4,244 stores from 2,504 food & drink chains in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA. Emerald City Smoothie grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Jersey Mike's Subs and Hops n Drops.

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
2,504
Tracked stores
4,244
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. Emerald City Smoothie and Jersey Mike's Subs sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E Emerald City Smoothie logo Emerald City Smoothie ▲5 +17.0%
2 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲5 +13.2%
3 H Hops n Drops logo Hops n Drops ▲6 +13.1%
4 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲5 +11.2%
5 M Molly Moon's Homemade Ice Cream ▲9 +11.0%
6 P Playa Bonita ▲7 +10.7%
7 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲1 +9.5%
8 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +7.4%
9 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲6 +7.0%
10 C Cactus logo Cactus ▲3 +5.7%
11 C Cutters Point Coffee logo Cutters Point Coffee ▲5 +5.4%
12 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread ▲2 +4.9%
13 T The Original Pancake House logo The Original Pancake House ▲6 +4.7%
14 T Trapper's Sushi logo Trapper's Sushi ▲2 +4.3%
15 T Taqueria El Rinconsito ▲10 +3.8%

Store footprint

Store map

4,244 tracked store locations in Seattle-Tacoma-Bellevue, WA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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