Trends · data through July 2026

Breakfast Restaurants in Kentucky

Iceflower tracks 102 stores from 12 breakfast restaurants chains in Kentucky. First Watch grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Waffle House and IHOP.

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
12
Tracked stores
102
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked breakfast restaurants 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. First Watch and Waffle House sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 F First Watch logo First Watch - +7.0%
2 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - -2.6%
3 I IHOP logo IHOP - -5.0%
  • Waffle House
  • First Watch
  • IHOP
  • Big Bad Breakfast
  • The Toasted Yolk Cafe
  • Breakfast AF
  • Highland Morning
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

102 tracked store locations in Kentucky. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Waffle House (63)
  • First Watch (18)
  • IHOP (12)
  • Big Bad Breakfast (1)
  • The Toasted Yolk Cafe (1)
  • Breakfast AF (1)
  • Highland Morning (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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