Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

Iceflower tracks 12,064 stores from 4,778 food & drink chains in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. Luby's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chili's Grill & Bar and Smoothie 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
4,778
Tracked stores
12,064
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. Luby's and Chili's Grill & Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Luby's logo Luby's ▲12 +19.1%
2 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲2 +15.5%
3 S Smoothie King logo Smoothie King ▲5 +14.4%
4 A Arby's logo Arby's ▲5 +13.1%
5 P Pluckers Wing Bar logo Pluckers Wing Bar ▲7 +12.5%
6 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲9 +11.7%
7 J Jakes Burgers and Beer ▲11 +10.1%
8 L Layne's Chicken Fingers logo Layne's Chicken Fingers ▲9 +9.1%
9 S Saltgrass Steak House logo Saltgrass Steak House ▲5 +9.1%
10 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster ▲9 +9.0%
11 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲9 +8.9%
12 H HTeaO logo HTeaO ▲6 +8.7%
13 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲5 +8.2%
14 T Texas de Brazil logo Texas de Brazil ▲7 +7.8%
15 F Fish N Tails Oyster Bar ▲10 +7.2%

Store footprint

Store map

12,064 tracked store locations in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, colored by category.

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