Trends · data through July 2026

Restaurants in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY

Iceflower tracks 423 stores from 344 restaurants chains in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY. LongHorn Steakhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Olive Garden and China King.

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
344
Tracked stores
423
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked restaurants 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. LongHorn Steakhouse and Olive Garden sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲1 +13.9%
2 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden ▲2 +7.9%
3 C China King - +3.0%
4 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▼1 +2.8%
5 M Mighty Taco ▼1 -4.4%
6 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar ▼1 -9.1%
7 P Pasquale's Italian Restaurant - -9.3%
8 T The Griffon Gastropub - -9.7%
9 P Pita Gourmet ▲1 -14.9%
10 M Moe's Southwest Grill logo Moe's Southwest Grill - -18.6%
11 J Jim's Steakout ▼1 -21.1%
12 D Denny's logo Denny's - -22.6%
  • Friendly's
  • Denny's
  • Olive Garden
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Mighty Taco
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
  • Friendly Chinese Buffet
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

423 tracked store locations in Buffalo-Cheektowaga, NY. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Friendly's (1)
  • Denny's (7)
  • Olive Garden (4)
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (11)
  • Mighty Taco (13)
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (1)
  • Friendly Chinese Buffet (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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