Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in State College, PA

Iceflower tracks 338 stores from 278 food & drink chains in State College, PA. Brothers Pizza grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Starbucks and McDonald's.

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
278
Tracked stores
338
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. Brothers Pizza and Starbucks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Brothers Pizza - +11.7%
2 Starbucks ▲1 +4.7%
3 McDonald's - +3.6%
4 Burger King - +0.7%
5 Domino's Pizza ▲2 -3.3%
6 Dunkin' - -7.3%
7 Wendy's - -8.5%
8 Panera Bread - -10.4%
9 Jersey Mike's Subs ▼1 -16.0%
10 Subway - -16.6%
11 Taco Bell ▼2 -23.9%
  • Other restaurants
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Casual Dining
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes
  • Pizzerias
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Coffee Chains
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

338 tracked store locations in State College, PA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 42 of the 338 stores (12%); 258 of the 278 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked food & drink stores here are coffee chains, against 4% across Pennsylvania.

  • Other restaurants (36)
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (30)
  • Casual Dining (29)
  • Cafes & Bakery-Cafes (28)
  • Pizzerias (25)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (20)
  • Coffee Chains (19)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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