Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Valdosta, GA

Iceflower tracks 326 stores from 242 food & drink chains in Valdosta, GA. Subway grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Starbucks and Zaxby's.

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
242
Tracked stores
326
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. Subway and Starbucks sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Subway - +18.6%
2 Starbucks - +7.7%
3 Zaxby's - +6.0%
4 Bojangles' - +5.8%
5 Waffle House ▲1 +4.8%
6 Red Owl Coffee Company ▲1 +3.5%
7 Burger King - +2.6%
8 McDonald's - +0.6%
9 Chick-fil-A - -1.3%
10 Dairy Queen - -1.3%
11 Sonic Drive-In ▲1 -1.9%
12 Wendy's - -2.3%
13 Arby's ▲1 -5.7%
14 Taco Bell ▼1 -6.1%
15 Domino's Pizza ▼1 -11.2%
  • Burger Chains
  • Casual Dining
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias
  • Chicken & Wings Fast Food
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Family Restaurants & Diners
  • Other restaurants
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

326 tracked store locations in Valdosta, GA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 39 of the 326 stores (12%); 208 of the 242 tracked chains have a single store here. 11% of the tracked food & drink stores here are burger chains, against 8% across Georgia.

  • Burger Chains (36)
  • Casual Dining (33)
  • Mexican Restaurants & Taquerias (23)
  • Chicken & Wings Fast Food (21)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (18)
  • Family Restaurants & Diners (17)
  • Other restaurants (17)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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