Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in St. Louis, MO-IL

Iceflower tracks 3,445 stores from 1,566 food & drink chains in St. Louis, MO-IL. Little Caesars grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Checkers and Rally's and Church's Chicken.

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
1,566
Tracked stores
3,445
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. Little Caesars and Checkers and Rally's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲6 +19.5%
2 C Checkers and Rally's logo Checkers and Rally's ▲11 +18.1%
3 C Church's Chicken logo Church's Chicken ▲6 +17.4%
4 M Mike Duffy's Pub & Grill - +16.4%
5 H Hotshots Sports Bar and Grill ▲4 +15.9%
6 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster ▲3 +14.8%
7 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲7 +14.6%
8 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲9 +14.4%
9 S Session Taco ▲7 +11.6%
10 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲4 +10.5%
11 S Scooter's Coffee logo Scooter's Coffee ▲5 +10.1%
12 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲4 +9.2%
13 5 54th Street Grill & Bar logo 54th Street Grill & Bar ▲4 +9.0%
14 E El Maguey ▲5 +9.0%
15 B Bob Evans logo Bob Evans ▲4 +7.9%

Store footprint

Store map

3,445 tracked store locations in St. Louis, MO-IL, colored by category.

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