Trends · data through July 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 8,442 stores from 3,413 food & drink chains in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. Black Rock Coffee Bar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Arby's and Chili's Grill & Bar.

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
3,413
Tracked stores
8,442
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. Black Rock Coffee Bar and Arby's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Black Rock Coffee Bar logo Black Rock Coffee Bar ▲17 +19.1%
2 A Arby's logo Arby's ▲20 +18.8%
3 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - +17.2%
4 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster ▲15 +17.2%
5 H Hopdoddy Burger Bar logo Hopdoddy Burger Bar ▲10 +15.0%
6 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲10 +15.0%
7 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's ▲6 +13.7%
8 S Shogun ▲10 +13.6%
9 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲8 +13.5%
10 J Jimmy Changas ▲16 +13.4%
11 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▲16 +13.3%
12 K KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot logo KPOT Korean BBQ & Hot Pot ▲13 +13.0%
13 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲16 +11.7%
14 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee ▲6 +11.6%
15 L Lotus Seafood ▲12 +10.7%

Store footprint

Store map

8,442 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX, colored by category.

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