Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Waterbury-Shelton, CT

Iceflower tracks 975 stores from 758 food & drink chains in Waterbury-Shelton, CT. Jersey Mike's Subs grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burger King and Panera Bread.

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
758
Tracked stores
975
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. Jersey Mike's Subs and Burger King sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Jersey Mike's Subs ▲2 +19.5%
2 Burger King ▲1 +7.7%
3 Panera Bread - +7.0%
4 Dunkin' - +6.8%
5 Wayback Burgers - +5.9%
6 Starbucks ▲1 +5.8%
7 Five Guys - +0.6%
8 Chili's Grill & Bar - -0.5%
9 Chipotle Mexican Grill ▼1 -0.5%
10 McDonald's - -1.0%
11 Subway ▼2 -1.7%
12 Taco Bell - -8.8%
13 Domino's Pizza ▲1 -9.1%
14 KFC ▲1 -11.1%
15 Nardelli's Grinder Shoppe - -13.2%

Store footprint

Store map

975 tracked store locations in Waterbury-Shelton, CT, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 129 of the 975 stores (13%); 703 of the 758 tracked chains have a single store here. 13% of the tracked food & drink stores here are pizzerias, against 10% across Connecticut.

Top tracked chains by store count

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