Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Wildwood-The Villages, FL

Iceflower tracks 225 stores from 166 food & drink chains in Wildwood-The Villages, FL. Jersey Mike's Subs grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Darrells Diner and Subway.

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
166
Tracked stores
225
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 Darrells Diner sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Jersey Mike's Subs - +10.7%
2 Darrells Diner ▲1 +5.5%
3 Subway - -2.0%
4 McDonald's - -6.9%
5 Burger King - -7.2%
6 Marco's Pizza - -8.7%
7 Dunkin' ▲1 -9.2%
8 Tropical Smoothie Cafe - -13.7%
9 Arby's ▲1 -15.2%
10 Starbucks ▲1 -16.4%
11 Taco Bell - -20.5%
12 Wendy's ▼1 -24.6%
13 KFC ▼2 -24.6%
14 Steak 'n Shake ▼1 -27.0%
  • Casual Dining
  • Burger Chains
  • Family Restaurants & Diners
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops
  • Coffee Chains
  • Other restaurants
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries
  • Other categories

Store footprint

Store map

225 tracked store locations in Wildwood-The Villages, FL, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 28 of the 225 stores (12%); 136 of the 166 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked food & drink stores here are family restaurants & diners, against 2% across Florida.

  • Casual Dining (27)
  • Burger Chains (25)
  • Family Restaurants & Diners (15)
  • Sandwich & Sub Shops (15)
  • Coffee Chains (14)
  • Other restaurants (14)
  • Bars, Pubs & Breweries (13)
  • Other categories

Top tracked chains by store count

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