Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 218 stores from 177 casual dining chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Outback Steakhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chili's Grill & Bar and LongHorn Steakhouse.

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
177
Tracked stores
218
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. Outback Steakhouse and Chili's Grill & Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse - +4.4%
2 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - +2.8%
3 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +2.0%
4 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - -3.4%
5 P Piada Italian Street Food logo Piada Italian Street Food ▲1 -5.5%
6 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - -5.8%
7 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers - -9.4%
8 N Noodles & Company logo Noodles & Company ▼1 -99.7%
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Olive Garden
  • Outback Steakhouse
  • The Angus Barn
  • LongHorn Steakhouse
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

218 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chili's Grill & Bar (9)
  • Olive Garden (5)
  • Outback Steakhouse (6)
  • The Angus Barn (1)
  • LongHorn Steakhouse (3)
  • Texas Roadhouse (2)
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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