Trends · data through August 2026

Food or Beverage Stores in the United States

Iceflower tracks 1,564 stores from 1,261 food or beverage stores chains in the United States. Happy Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Bevbox and Western Edge Seafood Outlet.

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
1,261
Tracked stores
1,564
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked food or beverage stores 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. Happy Market and Bevbox sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Happy Market ▲2 +19.2%
2 B Bevbox ▲1 +16.9%
3 W Western Edge Seafood Outlet - +14.6%
4 H Honolulu Cookie Company - +7.5%
5 T Top Shelf Wine & Spirits ▲1 +7.1%
6 S S. Clyde Weaver - +6.5%
7 G Grapes & Grains ▲2 +3.3%
8 H Hill's Quality Seafood Market - +2.0%
9 T The Cheese Lady - +0.3%
10 B Bottlecraft - +0.3%
11 W Wateria ▼1 -0.0%
12 B Beecher's Handmade Cheese logo Beecher's Handmade Cheese - -0.4%
13 G Grandpa's CheeseBarn logo Grandpa's CheeseBarn - -0.7%
14 H HoneyBaked Ham Company logo HoneyBaked Ham Company - -5.8%
15 T The Creamery - -7.2%
  • Buffalo Trace Distillery
  • HoneyBaked Ham Company
  • Ole Smoky Distillery
  • Grandpa's CheeseBarn
  • Safe Harbor Seafood Market
  • Jessie Taylor Seafood
  • Beecher's Handmade Cheese
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,564 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Buffalo Trace Distillery (1)
  • HoneyBaked Ham Company (72)
  • Ole Smoky Distillery (2)
  • Grandpa's CheeseBarn (3)
  • Safe Harbor Seafood Market (1)
  • Jessie Taylor Seafood (1)
  • Beecher's Handmade Cheese (9)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 H HoneyBaked Ham Company logo HoneyBaked Ham Company 72
  • 2 B Ben's Soft Pretzels 31
  • 3 C Chip City 12
  • 4 L LiqGo! 11
  • 5 B Beecher's Handmade Cheese logo Beecher's Handmade Cheese 9
  • 6 T The Creamery 9
  • 7 T The Cheese Shop 8
  • 8 T The Cheese Lady 8
  • 9 W Wateria 7
  • 10 H Happy Market 6
  • 11 G Grapes & Grains 5
  • 12 B Bottlecraft 5
  • 13 S Sticky Fingers logo Sticky Fingers 4
  • 14 C Capt'n Chucky's Crab Cake Co 4
  • 15 H Hill's Quality Seafood Market 4
  • 16 W Western Edge Seafood Outlet 4
  • 17 H Honolulu Cookie Company 4
  • 18 J Jackie's Seafood Market 3
  • 19 B Bevbox 3
  • 20 S S. Clyde Weaver 3
  • 21 G Gwenie's Pastries 3
  • 22 G Grandpa's CheeseBarn logo Grandpa's CheeseBarn 3
  • 23 T Top Shelf Wine & Spirits 3
  • 24 H Hard Truth 2
  • 25 T The Cheese House 2
  • 26 L Lam's Seafood Market 2
  • 27 E Eastern Kille Distillery 2
  • 28 C Copper Fox Distillery 2
  • 29 B Beer Depot 2
  • 30 W Wise Guys Discount Liquors 2
  • 31 S Southern Roots Smokehouse 2
  • 32 W Wagshal’s logo Wagshal’s 2
  • 33 T Tennessee Hills Distillery 2
  • 34 L Lancaster Cupcake logo Lancaster Cupcake 2
  • 35 S Shady Lady Liquor 2
  • 36 W West Allis Cheese & Sausage Shoppe 2
  • 37 K Kaminsky's Dessert Cafe logo Kaminsky's Dessert Cafe 2
  • 38 A Andy's Seafood Market 2
  • 39 R Radish Kitchen 2
  • 40 N Neopol Savory Smokery logo Neopol Savory Smokery 2
  • 41 C Capital Seafood Market 2
  • 42 S Simply Seafood 2
  • 43 S Saltwater Markets 2
  • 44 B Billy's Seafood 2
  • 45 L Long Road Distillers logo Long Road Distillers 2
  • 46 A AmeriStop logo AmeriStop 2
  • 47 L Lee Lee International Supermarkets logo Lee Lee International Supermarkets 2
  • 48 W Weldon Mills Distillery logo Weldon Mills Distillery 2
  • 49 O Ole Smoky Distillery logo Ole Smoky Distillery 2
  • 50 T Tennessee Legend Distillery 2

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