Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Kansas

Iceflower tracks 5,164 stores from 2,746 food & drink chains in Kansas. Waffle House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Schlotzsky's and Culver's.

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
2,746
Tracked stores
5,164
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. Waffle House and Schlotzsky's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲5 +19.7%
2 S Schlotzsky's logo Schlotzsky's ▲12 +19.0%
3 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲5 +18.7%
4 T The Big Biscuit ▲9 +18.4%
5 M Mi Ranchito ▲12 +16.0%
6 M Mokas Coffee & Eatery ▲2 +15.6%
7 A Andy's Frozen Custard logo Andy's Frozen Custard ▲3 +15.2%
8 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲1 +15.0%
9 P Perkins American Food Co. logo Perkins American Food Co. ▲10 +13.9%
10 S Scooter's Coffee logo Scooter's Coffee ▲5 +13.6%
11 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee ▲2 +12.6%
12 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲7 +12.6%
13 W Whataburger logo Whataburger ▲4 +10.8%
14 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers ▲3 +10.6%
15 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲4 +10.5%

Store footprint

Store map

5,164 tracked store locations in Kansas, colored by category.

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