Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 71,244 stores from 38,125 food & drink chains in the United Kingdom. The Rising Sun grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Starbucks and Loaf.

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
38,125
Tracked stores
71,244
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 Rising Sun and Starbucks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Rising Sun ▲23 +19.8%
2 S Starbucks logo Starbucks ▲1 +18.1%
3 L Loaf ▲22 +17.9%
4 C Cake Box logo Cake Box ▲6 +17.7%
5 B BENUGO logo BENUGO ▲16 +17.5%
6 M Morley's logo Morley's ▲10 +17.0%
7 P Pizza GoGo logo Pizza GoGo ▲14 +16.9%
8 T The Nags Head ▲21 +16.2%
9 G GAIL's ▲5 +15.2%
10 T The Cornish Bakery ▲1 +14.8%
11 D Dixy Chicken ▲23 +14.6%
12 C Creams logo Creams ▲3 +12.1%
13 H Haribo ▲1 +10.7%
14 T Tasty African Food ▲10 +8.9%
15 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲15 +8.6%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 71,244 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.