Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 3,390 stores from 1,560 casual dining chains in the United Kingdom. The Hive grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Little Italy and Tasty African Food.

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
1,560
Tracked stores
3,390
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. The Hive and Little Italy sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Hive ▲5 +19.9%
2 L Little Italy ▲3 +19.1%
3 T Tasty African Food ▲1 +18.4%
4 T The Whistle Stop ▲5 +16.1%
5 T The Cut & Craft logo The Cut & Craft ▲2 +15.1%
6 M Mamma Mia ▲2 +14.5%
7 S San Carlo logo San Carlo ▲5 +14.5%
8 C Café Rouge logo Café Rouge ▲2 +14.1%
9 C Cecconi's logo Cecconi's ▲4 +13.3%
10 G Golden Fry ▲3 +12.5%
11 D Driftwood ▲2 +11.1%
12 S SOUTH ▲2 +10.9%
13 T Toro's Steakhouse ▲5 +10.3%
14 T The Observatory ▲2 +10.0%
15 C Champs Sports Bar & Grill ▲2 +10.0%
  • IKEA Restaurant
  • Miller & Carter
  • Harvester
  • Zizzi
  • Bill's
  • Cosy Club
  • TGI Fridays
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

3,390 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • IKEA Restaurant (4)
  • Miller & Carter (114)
  • Harvester (123)
  • Zizzi (124)
  • Bill's (55)
  • Cosy Club (37)
  • TGI Fridays (70)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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