Trends · data through July 2026

Restaurants in Knoxville, TN

Iceflower tracks 557 stores from 451 restaurants chains in Knoxville, TN. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chili's Grill & Bar and Outback Steakhouse.

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
451
Tracked stores
557
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked 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. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Chili's Grill & Bar 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 +4.0%
2 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲1 +3.9%
3 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse ▲3 +2.4%
4 R Ruby Tuesday logo Ruby Tuesday - +0.6%
5 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - -1.8%
6 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar ▲1 -3.2%
7 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲2 -4.9%
8 C Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen logo Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen ▼1 -5.2%
9 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster ▲1 -5.6%
10 B Buddy's Bar-B-Q logo Buddy's Bar-B-Q ▼1 -6.0%
11 C Calhoun's Restaurant logo Calhoun's Restaurant ▼1 -6.7%
12 T The Soup Kitchen - -8.8%
13 C Captain D's logo Captain D's - -12.7%
14 S Salsarita's Fresh Mexican Grill logo Salsarita's Fresh Mexican Grill ▼1 -13.1%
15 S Shoney's ▼3 -16.6%
  • Aubrey's
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Calhoun's Restaurant
  • Olive Garden
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • Buddy's Bar-B-Q
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Aubrey's (6)
  • Texas Roadhouse (6)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (6)
  • Calhoun's Restaurant (7)
  • Olive Garden (2)
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (5)
  • Buddy's Bar-B-Q (11)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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