Trends · data through September 2026

Family Restaurants & Diners in Knoxville, TN

Iceflower tracks 65 stores from 24 family restaurants & diners in Knoxville, TN. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Shoney's 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
24
Tracked stores
65
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked family restaurants & diners

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. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Shoney's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store - +3.5%
2 S Shoney's - +0.2%
3 I IHOP logo IHOP - -17.4%
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
  • Shoney's
  • IHOP
  • Oliver's Restaurant & Catering
  • Metro Diner
  • Waffle House
  • Mimi's Cafe
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

65 tracked store locations in Knoxville, TN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (10)
  • Shoney's (14)
  • IHOP (6)
  • Oliver's Restaurant & Catering (1)
  • Metro Diner (1)
  • Waffle House (15)
  • Mimi's Cafe (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 W Waffle House logo Waffle House 15
  • 2 S Shoney's 14
  • 3 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 10
  • 4 I IHOP logo IHOP 6
  • 5 T The Homeplace Restaurant 1
  • 6 L Little Vols Diner 1
  • 7 H Hometown Restaurant 1
  • 8 F Fox's Diner 1
  • 9 A Alice's Catering 1
  • 10 T Twister's Diner 1
  • 11 T The Vols Diner 1
  • 12 S Sunrise Inn 1
  • 13 S Southern Kitchen 1
  • 14 R Ruby's Diner logo Ruby's Diner 1
  • 15 M Myrtle's Chicken and Beer 1
  • 16 E Emma's Southern Kitchen 1
  • 17 S Snoring Bear Diner 1
  • 18 J Jackie's Dream 1
  • 19 H Horn of Plenty Market 1
  • 20 D Denny's logo Denny's 1
  • 21 H Hot Rods 50's Diner 1
  • 22 M Mimi's Cafe logo Mimi's Cafe 1
  • 23 M Metro Diner logo Metro Diner 1
  • 24 O Oliver's Restaurant & Catering 1

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