Food & Drink Trends in the US: Fastest-Growing Chains 2026

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. Scooter's Coffee and Black Rock Coffee Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Scooter's Coffee	▲9	+19.2%
2	Black Rock Coffee Bar	▲25	+18.7%
3	Swig	▲20	+17.3%
4	Caribou Coffee	▲15	+16.4%
5	Nothing Bundt Cakes	▲6	+16.3%
6	Dave's Hot Chicken	▲6	+15.5%
7	CAVA	▲5	+15.2%
8	Baskin-Robbins	▲2	+14.2%
9	Din Tai Fung	▲13	+13.6%
10	KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot	▲6	+13.4%
11	Dutch Bros Coffee	▲2	+12.8%
12	Braum's	▲17	+12.5%
13	Shake Shack	▲2	+10.1%
14	North Italia	▲13	+9.6%
15	In-N-Out Burger	▲6	+9.6%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 726,600 tracked store locations in the United States, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 59,068 of the 726,600 stores (8%); 303,342 of the 348,871 tracked chains have a single store here.