Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Wilmington, NC

Iceflower tracks 1,066 stores from 795 food & drink chains in Wilmington, NC. Indochine Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of P.T.'s Olde Fashioned Grille and Eggs Up Grill.

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
795
Tracked stores
1,066
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. Indochine Express and P.T.'s Olde Fashioned Grille sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 I Indochine Express ▲2 +15.8%
2 P P.T.'s Olde Fashioned Grille logo P.T.'s Olde Fashioned Grille ▲2 +10.3%
3 E Eggs Up Grill logo Eggs Up Grill ▲2 +9.8%
4 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲2 +9.5%
5 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - +9.3%
6 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +5.5%
7 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +5.3%
8 H Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries logo Hwy 55 Burgers Shakes & Fries ▲1 +2.6%
9 B Burrito Shak ▲3 +2.4%
10 M McDonald's logo McDonald's ▲1 +2.4%
11 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs - -0.9%
12 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▼1 -1.9%
13 B Burney's Sweets & More - -3.3%
14 S Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q logo Smithfield's Chicken 'N Bar-B-Q ▲1 -4.5%
15 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza - -5.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,066 tracked store locations in Wilmington, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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