Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City

Iceflower tracks 469 stores from 358 food & drink chains in Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City. The Crown grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Costa Coffee and Burger King.

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
358
Tracked stores
469
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. The Crown and Costa Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Crown ▲1 +14.6%
2 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee ▲1 +14.2%
3 B Burger King logo Burger King - +8.4%
4 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +7.2%
5 R Red Lion - +5.5%
6 G Greggs logo Greggs - +4.0%
7 T The Red Lion - +2.9%
8 P Prezzo logo Prezzo - +1.6%
9 S Simmons Bakers logo Simmons Bakers - -0.2%
10 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero - -0.3%
11 R Rose & Crown - -0.7%
12 K KFC logo KFC - -1.4%
13 S Subway logo Subway - -6.7%
14 T The Plume of Feathers ▼1 -19.6%
15 T The Three Horseshoes ▼1 -30.4%

Store footprint

Store map

469 tracked store locations in Stevenage and Welwyn Garden City, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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