Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Sunderland

Iceflower tracks 416 stores from 338 food & drink chains in Sunderland. Toby Carvery grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McDonald's and Greggs.

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
338
Tracked stores
416
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. Toby Carvery and McDonald's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Toby Carvery logo Toby Carvery - -0.1%
2 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -0.2%
3 G Greggs logo Greggs - -0.2%
4 K KFC logo KFC - -1.3%
5 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee - -5.4%

Store footprint

Store map

416 tracked store locations in Sunderland, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 G Greggs logo Greggs 28
  • 2 S Subway logo Subway 13
  • 3 M McDonald's logo McDonald's 10
  • 4 K KFC logo KFC 7
  • 5 C Costa Coffee logo Costa Coffee 6
  • 6 S Starbucks logo Starbucks 5
  • 7 C Cooplands logo Cooplands 4
  • 8 T Toby Carvery logo Toby Carvery 3
  • 9 T The Blue Bell 2
  • 10 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza 2
  • 11 T The Beehive 2
  • 12 G Grill N Chill 2
  • 13 B Burger King logo Burger King 2
  • 14 T The Engine Room 2
  • 15 T Tim Hortons logo Tim Hortons 2
  • 16 T The Grindon Mill 1
  • 17 T The Wild Boar 1
  • 18 G Gillies Restaurant 1
  • 19 T The New Tavern 1
  • 20 C Caffè Nero logo Caffè Nero 1
  • 21 T The Fire Station 1
  • 22 T The Alexandra Steakhouse 1
  • 23 T The Mill 1
  • 24 T The Hat and Feathers 1
  • 25 T The Guidepost 1
  • 26 T The White Lion 1
  • 27 B Black Bull 1
  • 28 S Slice Sunderland 1
  • 29 G Gills Fry Fry 1
  • 30 T The Victoria Inn 1
  • 31 T The Salt House Kitchen 1
  • 32 T The Ivy House 1
  • 33 C Cherry Tree 1
  • 34 P Penshaw Tearooms Bakery 1
  • 35 A Ayton logo Ayton 1
  • 36 S Six at Pier Point 1
  • 37 T The Seaburn Bay 1
  • 38 T The Grange 1
  • 39 T These Things Happen 1
  • 40 P Poetic License 1
  • 41 T The Chesters 1
  • 42 R Ranya Shawarma Grill 1
  • 43 S Signatures Italian Restaurant 1
  • 44 T The Shipwrights 1
  • 45 S Sambuca Sunderland 1
  • 46 T The Colliery Tavern Boldon 1
  • 47 T The Washington Arms 1
  • 48 T The Blue House 1
  • 49 D Divine Sunderland 1
  • 50 N North Beach Coffee Bar 1

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