Trends · data through September 2026

Snacks & Specialty Food in the United States

Iceflower tracks 1,898 stores from 460 snacks & specialty food chains in the United States. Pepper Palace grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Evans Farm and The Honey Baked Ham Company.

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
460
Tracked stores
1,898
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked snacks & specialty food 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. Pepper Palace and Evans Farm sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Pepper Palace logo Pepper Palace - +17.4%
2 E Evans Farm ▲2 +7.7%
3 T The Honey Baked Ham Company logo The Honey Baked Ham Company - +7.3%
4 T The Cheese Shop ▲2 +7.2%
5 C Clusters Handcrafted Popcorn ▲2 +6.4%
6 T The Spice & Tea Exchange logo The Spice & Tea Exchange - +5.6%
7 L Läderach logo Läderach ▲3 +3.2%
8 G Garrett Popcorn Shops logo Garrett Popcorn Shops ▲1 +2.1%
9 T The Cheese Lady ▲1 +0.3%
10 B Beecher's Handmade Cheese logo Beecher's Handmade Cheese - -0.0%
11 C Calvert Kettle Corn - -0.3%
12 C Cherry Republic logo Cherry Republic ▲1 -0.8%
13 T The Nut House ▲2 -1.9%
14 G Go Green CBD - -2.0%
15 H Hickory Farms Holiday Market logo Hickory Farms Holiday Market - -3.2%
  • The Honey Baked Ham Company
  • The Spice & Tea Exchange
  • Edible Arrangements
  • Penzeys Spices
  • Beecher's Handmade Cheese
  • Hickory Farms Holiday Market
  • Tillamook Farm Store
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,898 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • The Honey Baked Ham Company (509)
  • The Spice & Tea Exchange (101)
  • Edible Arrangements (329)
  • Penzeys Spices (49)
  • Beecher's Handmade Cheese (9)
  • Hickory Farms Holiday Market (117)
  • Tillamook Farm Store (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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