Trends · data through September 2026

Chinese in Michigan

Iceflower tracks 565 stores from 380 Chinese chains in Michigan. China Cafe grew fastest over the last year, ahead of China One and Dragon Express.

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
380
Tracked stores
565
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Chinese 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. China Cafe and China One sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C China Cafe ▲1 +18.2%
2 C China One ▲2 +12.8%
3 D Dragon Express ▲3 +4.1%
4 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +2.9%
5 H Hong Kong Restaurant ▼1 +2.4%
6 C China Express - +1.5%
7 C China King ▲2 -0.4%
8 C China City - -0.4%
9 C China Gourmet ▲1 -0.6%
10 P Panda House - -0.6%
11 G Great Wall - -2.4%
12 C Chan's Garden - -2.8%
13 C China 1 ▼1 -3.1%
14 C China Wok ▼1 -4.5%
15 C China House - -4.9%
  • Panda Express
  • Great Wall
  • China House
  • China King
  • Hunan Gardens
  • China Garden
  • Ten Ten Buffet Grill & Sushi
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

565 tracked store locations in Michigan. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Panda Express (53)
  • Great Wall (9)
  • China House (12)
  • China King (12)
  • Hunan Gardens (3)
  • China Garden (12)
  • Ten Ten Buffet Grill & Sushi (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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