Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Waco, TX

Iceflower tracks 388 stores from 265 food & drink chains in Waco, TX. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dairy Queen and Chick-fil-A.

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
265
Tracked stores
388
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. Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen and Dairy Queen sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲1 +17.1%
2 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲5 +10.8%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +10.7%
4 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza ▲2 +9.3%
5 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲1 +5.8%
6 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee - +0.3%
7 J Jimmy John's logo Jimmy John's - -0.5%
8 B Bush's Chicken logo Bush's Chicken ▲1 -0.9%
9 P Pizza Hut logo Pizza Hut ▲2 -1.0%
10 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - -2.5%
11 W Whataburger logo Whataburger - -3.3%
12 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▼1 -6.5%
13 C Chopsticks - -8.8%
14 I IHOP logo IHOP - -8.8%
15 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - -9.7%

Store footprint

Store map

388 tracked store locations in Waco, TX, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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