Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Topeka, KS

Iceflower tracks 343 stores from 263 food & drink chains in Topeka, KS. Burger King grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Starbucks and Dairy Queen.

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
263
Tracked stores
343
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. Burger King and Starbucks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Burger King ▲1 +10.1%
2 Starbucks ▲2 +9.3%
3 Dairy Queen ▲1 +7.2%
4 IHOP ▲1 +6.0%
5 Chick-fil-A - +5.7%
6 Papa John's Pizza ▲1 +4.2%
7 McDonald's - +3.1%
8 Gambino's Pizza - +2.8%
9 Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲2 +1.0%
10 Arby's ▲1 +0.1%
11 Jimmy John's ▼2 -4.1%
12 Subway - -4.8%
13 Wendy's ▼2 -5.8%
14 Scooter's Coffee ▼1 -6.9%
15 Papa Murphy's - -8.4%

Store footprint

Store map

343 tracked store locations in Topeka, KS, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 37 of the 343 stores (11%); 233 of the 263 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked food & drink stores here are Mexican restaurants & taquerias, against 8% across Kansas.

Top tracked chains by store count

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