Trends · data through September 2026

Barbecue in Pennsylvania

Iceflower tracks 239 stores from 205 barbecue chains in Pennsylvania. Mission BBQ grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dee Jay's BBQ Ribs & Grille and Smokey Bones.

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
205
Tracked stores
239
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked barbecue 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. Mission BBQ and Dee Jay's BBQ Ribs & Grille sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Mission BBQ logo Mission BBQ - +6.6%
2 D Dee Jay's BBQ Ribs & Grille logo Dee Jay's BBQ Ribs & Grille - -29.3%
3 S Smokey Bones logo Smokey Bones - -54.5%
  • Mission BBQ
  • Smokey Bones
  • Stoltzfus BBQ and Fresh Poultry
  • Pig and Fire House of Barbeque
  • Fat Eddy's Bar-BQ
  • Dee Jay's BBQ Ribs & Grille
  • Big Rig's BBQ
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

239 tracked store locations in Pennsylvania. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Mission BBQ (15)
  • Smokey Bones (9)
  • Stoltzfus BBQ and Fresh Poultry (1)
  • Pig and Fire House of Barbeque (1)
  • Fat Eddy's Bar-BQ (2)
  • Dee Jay's BBQ Ribs & Grille (3)
  • Big Rig's BBQ (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 M Mission BBQ logo Mission BBQ 15
  • 2 S Smokey Bones logo Smokey Bones 9
  • 3 D Dickey's Barbecue Pit logo Dickey's Barbecue Pit 4
  • 4 D Dee Jay's BBQ Ribs & Grille logo Dee Jay's BBQ Ribs & Grille 3
  • 5 B B3Q Smokehouse 2
  • 6 B Big Creek BBQ 2
  • 7 D Doan's Bones Barbecue 2
  • 8 R Rogue BBQ 2
  • 9 F Food & Fire 2
  • 10 R Redd's Smokehouse BBQ 2
  • 11 F Fat Eddy's Bar-BQ 2
  • 12 P Pigfoot 1
  • 13 S Sauced 1
  • 14 H Henry's Bar-B-Q 1
  • 15 B Big Bad Wolf Barbeque 1
  • 16 P Pit Stop BBQ 1
  • 17 S Smokehouse BBQ 1
  • 18 H Hickory Park 1
  • 19 M MoMo BBQ Co 1
  • 20 F Fitz Willys Kitchen and Catering LLC 1
  • 21 G Graham's Up In Smoke BBQ 1
  • 22 T The Flame BBQ 1
  • 23 M Muddy Creek BBQ 1
  • 24 S Smoke 'Em Up BBQ 1
  • 25 S Shakedown BBQ 1
  • 26 C Charlies Country Ribs 1
  • 27 B Bulldawg BBQ, LLC 1
  • 28 M Mitch's Barbecue 1
  • 29 S Sipes Smokehouse BBQ 1
  • 30 R Red's Bar-B-Que 1
  • 31 B Backwoods Brothers Authentic Texas Cuisine 1
  • 32 H Hogs Galore 1
  • 33 I Island BBQ 1
  • 34 T Two Brothers BBQ 1
  • 35 L Los Gios LLC 1
  • 36 S Smokehouse Fixx 1
  • 37 J John Parson’s Texas Barbecue 1
  • 38 Y You Got Pork'D 1
  • 39 A Allgyers BBQ Corner 1
  • 40 A Applewood BBQ 1
  • 41 D Dynamic Wings Express 1
  • 42 P Papa Wood BBQ 1
  • 43 C Callear's Barbecue 1
  • 44 D Dougies 1
  • 45 J Jim's Smokin' Que 1
  • 46 S Smoking Aces BBQ logo Smoking Aces BBQ 1
  • 47 S Stewartstown Smokehouse & Beer Barn 1
  • 48 R Rochester Smokehouse & BBQ 1
  • 49 B Big Mike's Smokin' BBQ & Grill 1
  • 50 O Old Carolina Barbecue Company logo Old Carolina Barbecue Company 1

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