Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC

Iceflower tracks 3,181 stores from 1,886 food & drink chains in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC. Jimmy John's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard and Sakura Japanese Restaurant.

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
1,886
Tracked stores
3,181
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. Jimmy John's and Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J Jimmy John's logo Jimmy John's ▲7 +19.6%
2 R Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard logo Rita's Italian Ice & Frozen Custard ▲3 +17.9%
3 S Sakura Japanese Restaurant ▲7 +16.2%
4 C China Sun ▲1 +14.1%
5 J Jade Garden ▲3 +13.3%
6 M Marco's Pizza logo Marco's Pizza ▲4 +12.5%
7 T TASTE logo TASTE ▲8 +12.2%
8 T The Twisted Crab logo The Twisted Crab ▲5 +12.1%
9 J Jason's Deli logo Jason's Deli ▲3 +10.8%
10 B Bangkok Garden ▲4 +10.8%
11 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲3 +10.4%
12 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +10.1%
13 K Kelly's Tavern logo Kelly's Tavern ▲5 +8.9%
14 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲3 +8.5%
15 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲2 +7.8%

Store footprint

Store map

3,181 tracked store locations in Virginia Beach-Chesapeake-Norfolk, VA-NC, colored by category.

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