Trends · data through September 2026

Buffets in New York

Iceflower tracks 92 stores from 71 buffets in New York. Golden Corral Buffet & Grill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Asian Buffet and Flaming Grill & Buffet.

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
71
Tracked stores
92
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked buffets

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. Golden Corral Buffet & Grill and Asian Buffet sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Golden Corral Buffet & Grill logo Golden Corral Buffet & Grill - +7.1%
2 A Asian Buffet - +3.3%
3 F Flaming Grill & Buffet - +2.7%
4 O Old Country Buffet - -0.9%
  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill
  • Flaming Grill & Buffet
  • United Buffet
  • Amherst Buffet
  • Empire Buffet
  • Umi Hotpot Sushi & Seafood Buffet
  • Super Buffet
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

92 tracked store locations in New York. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill (4)
  • Flaming Grill & Buffet (7)
  • United Buffet (1)
  • Amherst Buffet (1)
  • Empire Buffet (1)
  • Umi Hotpot Sushi & Seafood Buffet (1)
  • Super Buffet (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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