Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in Iowa

Iceflower tracks 558 stores from 434 casual dining chains in Iowa. Chili's Grill & Bar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Red Lobster and Olive Garden.

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
434
Tracked stores
558
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. Chili's Grill & Bar and Red Lobster sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲1 +12.5%
2 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster - +10.7%
3 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - +8.3%
4 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - +4.8%
5 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +3.6%
6 N Napoli's Italian Restaurant - +3.5%
7 B Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano logo Biaggi's Ristorante Italiano - +0.8%
8 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers - -1.3%
9 B Bennigan’s ▲1 -2.9%
10 H HuHot Mongolian Grill logo HuHot Mongolian Grill ▼1 -4.1%
11 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse - -4.3%
12 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - -4.4%
13 Z Zio Johno's Marion ▼1 -27.6%
14 F Fazoli's logo Fazoli's - -29.6%
15 O Old Chicago logo Old Chicago - -50.9%
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Olive Garden
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • HuHot Mongolian Grill
  • LongHorn Steakhouse
  • The Spot
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

558 tracked store locations in Iowa. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Texas Roadhouse (12)
  • Olive Garden (10)
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (25)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (6)
  • HuHot Mongolian Grill (11)
  • LongHorn Steakhouse (3)
  • The Spot (6)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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