Trends · data through September 2026

Buffets in Texas

Iceflower tracks 486 stores from 91 buffets in Texas. Sirloin Stockade grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Buffet Palace and King 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
91
Tracked stores
486
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. Sirloin Stockade and Buffet Palace sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sirloin Stockade ▲1 +14.6%
2 B Buffet Palace ▲1 +11.6%
3 K King Buffet ▲1 +9.5%
4 P Panda Buffet - +6.9%
5 B Buffet King - +6.6%
6 G Gatti's Pizza - +4.6%
7 C Cicis Pizza logo Cicis Pizza - +3.9%
8 G Grand Buffet ▲1 +2.8%
9 Y Yummy Buffet - +2.1%
10 A Asian Buffet ▼1 +1.3%
11 K Khan's Grill ▲1 +0.8%
12 C China Buffet ▲1 -1.2%
13 H Hartz Chicken Buffet logo Hartz Chicken Buffet - -1.6%
14 G Golden Corral Buffet & Grill logo Golden Corral Buffet & Grill - -2.9%
15 D Dimassi's Mediterranean Buffet - -10.2%
  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill
  • Cicis Pizza
  • Hartz Chicken Buffet
  • King Buffet
  • Asian Buffet
  • Lin's Grand Buffet
  • Dimassi's Mediterranean Buffet
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

486 tracked store locations in Texas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill (56)
  • Cicis Pizza (165)
  • Hartz Chicken Buffet (66)
  • King Buffet (10)
  • Asian Buffet (12)
  • Lin's Grand Buffet (6)
  • Dimassi's Mediterranean Buffet (14)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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