Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 15,763 stores from 8,599 food & drink chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Firehouse Subs and Nothing Bundt Cakes.

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
8,599
Tracked stores
15,763
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. KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot and Firehouse Subs sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot logo KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot ▲16 +18.9%
2 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▲18 +18.8%
3 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲15 +17.6%
4 T Taquerias Arandas logo Taquerias Arandas ▲15 +16.9%
5 L Local Table ▲11 +16.8%
6 Y Yard House logo Yard House ▲9 +15.4%
7 A Adriatic Cafe Italian Grill ▲11 +13.0%
8 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲16 +12.4%
9 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲10 +12.3%
10 N North Italia logo North Italia ▲7 +11.8%
11 B Black Bear Diner logo Black Bear Diner ▲4 +11.0%
12 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲4 +10.7%
13 G Grimaldi's logo Grimaldi's ▲6 +10.2%
14 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee ▲2 +9.4%
15 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲2 +9.2%

Store footprint

Store map

15,763 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, colored by category.

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