Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Utica-Rome, NY

Iceflower tracks 649 stores from 524 food & drink chains in Utica-Rome, NY. Nicky Doodles grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dunkin' and Applebee's Grill + Bar.

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
524
Tracked stores
649
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. Nicky Doodles and Dunkin' sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Nicky Doodles ▲2 +6.1%
2 Dunkin' - +5.2%
3 Applebee's Grill + Bar - +3.6%
4 McDonald's - +3.3%
5 Grande's Pizza Italian Restaurant ▲1 +2.3%
6 KFC ▲1 +1.4%
7 Dippin Donuts ▲1 +0.5%
8 Arby's ▲1 +0.2%
9 Burger King - -0.3%
10 Taco Bell - -3.8%
11 Wendy's ▼1 -4.5%
12 Starbucks - -5.8%
13 Domino's Pizza - -7.5%
14 Tony's Pizza - -11.5%
15 Subway ▼1 -12.1%

Store footprint

Store map

649 tracked store locations in Utica-Rome, NY, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 73 of the 649 stores (11%); 483 of the 524 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked food & drink stores here are pizzerias, against 7% across New York.

Top tracked chains by store count

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