Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in New Jersey

Iceflower tracks 1,835 stores from 1,519 casual dining chains in New Jersey. LongHorn Steakhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Nathan's Famous and Texas Roadhouse.

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
1,519
Tracked stores
1,835
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked casual dining 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. LongHorn Steakhouse and Nathan's Famous sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +9.2%
2 N Nathan's Famous logo Nathan's Famous ▲2 +7.8%
3 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲1 +7.6%
4 C Carrabba's Italian Grill logo Carrabba's Italian Grill ▲3 +4.7%
5 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - +4.5%
6 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - +3.9%
7 S Stewart's Root Beer ▲1 +3.7%
8 F Frank's Trattoria ▲2 +2.3%
9 B Boardwalk ▲3 +0.4%
10 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden ▼1 -0.5%
11 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster ▲1 -0.8%
12 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse - -1.7%
13 T Three Brothers Italian Restaurant - -7.5%
14 S Stage House Tavern ▲1 -7.7%
15 U Uno Pizzeria & Grill logo Uno Pizzeria & Grill ▲3 -9.3%
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Olive Garden
  • LongHorn Steakhouse
  • Outback Steakhouse
  • Red Lobster
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,835 tracked store locations in New Jersey. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (56)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (25)
  • Texas Roadhouse (9)
  • Olive Garden (19)
  • LongHorn Steakhouse (22)
  • Outback Steakhouse (21)
  • Red Lobster (15)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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