Trends · data through September 2026

Buffets in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 100 stores from 54 buffets in the United Kingdom. Panda Mami grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Aroma and Spoon World 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
54
Tracked stores
100
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. Panda Mami and Aroma sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Mami logo Panda Mami ▲1 +13.9%
2 A Aroma - -7.4%
3 S Spoon World Buffet ▼1 -9.5%
4 C Cosmo logo Cosmo - -10.8%
5 J JRC Global Buffet logo JRC Global Buffet - -16.6%
6 S Sizzler logo Sizzler - -31.3%
  • JRC Global Buffet
  • Beijing Banquet
  • Aroma
  • Hot World Cuisine
  • Panda Mami
  • Spoon World Buffet
  • Jimmy's Restaurants
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

100 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • JRC Global Buffet (6)
  • Beijing Banquet (6)
  • Aroma (16)
  • Hot World Cuisine (1)
  • Panda Mami (3)
  • Spoon World Buffet (3)
  • Jimmy's Restaurants (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 A Aroma 16
  • 2 C Cosmo logo Cosmo 14
  • 3 J JRC Global Buffet logo JRC Global Buffet 6
  • 4 B Beijing Banquet logo Beijing Banquet 6
  • 5 P Panda Mami logo Panda Mami 3
  • 6 S Spoon World Buffet 3
  • 7 S Sizzler logo Sizzler 3
  • 8 S Shanghai Shanghai 2
  • 9 N Nines Global Buffet logo Nines Global Buffet 2
  • 10 C China Buffet 1
  • 11 A Asli Zaiqa 1
  • 12 R Raff 55 1
  • 13 O Oxy Oriental 1
  • 14 Y Yamm Buffet 1
  • 15 Z Za Za Bazaar logo Za Za Bazaar 1
  • 16 B Buffet City 1
  • 17 R Red Leaf Global Buffet 1
  • 18 B Buffet Time Restaurant 1
  • 19 H Hot World Cuisine 1
  • 20 L Legend Buffet 1
  • 21 A Asian Cuisine 1
  • 22 P Panda Oriental Buffet 1
  • 23 M Mr. Basrai's World Cuisines 1
  • 24 K Kings Buffet 1
  • 25 G Golden Buffet 1
  • 26 R Royal Buffet 1
  • 27 H Harko Oriental 1
  • 28 F Fortune Star 1
  • 29 B Bon Pan Asian Merry Hill 1
  • 30 R Raees Indo-Chinese Buffet 1
  • 31 V Vesta Global Buffet 1
  • 32 J Jimmy's Restaurants 1
  • 33 T Tops Buffet Restaurant 1
  • 34 B Booffi Glasgow Fort 1
  • 35 Z Zauq Buffet 1
  • 36 S Shahi Masala 1
  • 37 W W2 World Buffet 1
  • 38 M Mandarin Buffet 1
  • 39 M Ming Moon Chinese Restaurant & Bar 1
  • 40 S Song's Buffet 1
  • 41 B Buffet King 1
  • 42 S Saphari 1
  • 43 M Marble Global Buffet 1
  • 44 Z Ziryab Executive Buffet 1
  • 45 H Hong Buffet 1
  • 46 R Royal Shalimar 1
  • 47 S Spoon World Buffet & Bar 1
  • 48 J Jimmy Spice's 1
  • 49 A Aroma Buffet logo Aroma Buffet 1
  • 50 Y Young Cheng Buffet 1

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