Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO

Iceflower tracks 542 stores from 369 casual dining chains in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO. Texas Roadhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chili's Grill & Bar and Red Robin Gourmet Burgers.

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
369
Tracked stores
542
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked casual dining 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. Texas Roadhouse and Chili's Grill & Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - +16.5%
2 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - +15.1%
3 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers - +13.9%
4 T Ted's Montana Grill logo Ted's Montana Grill - +11.2%
5 L Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar logo Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar - +10.2%
6 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster - +8.6%
7 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - +8.5%
8 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse - +6.7%
9 H HuHot Mongolian Grill logo HuHot Mongolian Grill - +1.0%
10 B BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse logo BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse - +0.6%
11 O Old Chicago logo Old Chicago - -2.9%
12 B Bad Daddy's Burger Bar logo Bad Daddy's Burger Bar - -7.1%
13 N Noodles & Company logo Noodles & Company - -13.4%
14 E Elway's logo Elway's - -26.3%
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Olive Garden
  • Monarch Chophouse
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

542 tracked store locations in Denver-Aurora-Centennial, CO. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Texas Roadhouse (9)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (19)
  • Olive Garden (10)
  • Monarch Chophouse (1)
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (15)
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (12)
  • Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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