Trends · data through September 2026

Family Restaurants & Diners in Mississippi

Iceflower tracks 224 stores from 82 family restaurants & diners in Mississippi. Waffle House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Huddle House.

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
82
Tracked stores
224
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. Waffle House and Cracker Barrel Old Country Store sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +12.2%
2 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store - -3.9%
3 H Huddle House logo Huddle House - -22.1%
4 D Denny's logo Denny's - -22.3%
5 I IHOP logo IHOP - -27.4%
  • Waffle House
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
  • IHOP
  • Denny's
  • Dat Kitchen Too
  • Countryside Diner
  • Weidmann's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

224 tracked store locations in Mississippi. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Waffle House (93)
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (16)
  • IHOP (13)
  • Denny's (5)
  • Dat Kitchen Too (1)
  • Countryside Diner (1)
  • Weidmann's (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 W Waffle House logo Waffle House 93
  • 2 H Huddle House logo Huddle House 18
  • 3 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store 16
  • 4 I IHOP logo IHOP 13
  • 5 D Denny's logo Denny's 5
  • 6 P Piccadilly Cafeteria logo Piccadilly Cafeteria 2
  • 7 A Abbays 2
  • 8 C Country Fisherman Cafe 1
  • 9 E Ez2Go Chicken and Deli 1
  • 10 M Mel's Diner logo Mel's Diner 1
  • 11 M Mama's Eats N Sweets 1
  • 12 M Mr. Whiskers Family Catfish Restaurant 1
  • 13 C Chism's Diner 1
  • 14 B Bettina's Soulfood Kitchen 1
  • 15 J Jack's Diner 1
  • 16 P Pop's Family Diner 1
  • 17 S SweetPea's Table 1
  • 18 F Fannin Mart Restaurant 1
  • 19 A Alma Jean's Southern Kookin 1
  • 20 T Thelmas Kitchen 1
  • 21 T The Malt Shop 1
  • 22 S Southern Satisfaction Restaurant 1
  • 23 B Bully's Restaurant 1
  • 24 T The Dinner Bell 1
  • 25 T The Diner 1
  • 26 R Rockin Chicken and Waffles 1
  • 27 S Southern Hands Homestyle Cooking logo Southern Hands Homestyle Cooking 1
  • 28 R Rays Grill 1
  • 29 P PB's Twisted Q 1
  • 30 R Rick's Diner 1
  • 31 C Country Kitchen logo Country Kitchen 1
  • 32 S Sweet Mamas Water Valley 1
  • 33 J Joe's Diner 1
  • 34 D Dixie Diner 1
  • 35 S Simply Southern 1
  • 36 T The Ranch House 1
  • 37 S Shivers Good Eats 1
  • 38 5 51 Diner 1
  • 39 A Aunt B's Soul Food Restaurant 1
  • 40 T The Snack Shack 1
  • 41 K Kountry Kitchen 1
  • 42 T The Burning Bush 1
  • 43 B B & A Country Platter 1
  • 44 B Blue Sky Diner 1
  • 45 S Snow Crazy Snowballs and Snacks 1
  • 46 T Twisted Turnip 1
  • 47 B Big Daddys Soul Food To Go 1
  • 48 N North 11 Diner 1
  • 49 D Dru's Diner 1
  • 50 D Dem Dam Burgers 1

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