Trends · data through July 2026

Buffet Restaurants in the United States

Iceflower tracks 1,216 stores from 416 buffet restaurants chains in the United States. Eastern Buffet grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Harvest Buffet and Chow Time Grill & 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
416
Tracked stores
1,216
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked buffet restaurants 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. Eastern Buffet and Harvest Buffet sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E Eastern Buffet ▲5 +18.0%
2 H Harvest Buffet ▲4 +15.7%
3 C Chow Time Grill & Buffet ▲4 +12.9%
4 O Ocean Buffet - +12.4%
5 S Sakura Buffet ▲2 +12.1%
6 C China Super Buffet ▲4 +9.6%
7 F Feast Buffet - +9.6%
8 B Beijing Buffet ▲1 +8.2%
9 L Lin's Grand Buffet - +7.2%
10 B Buffet City - +5.4%
11 O Ole Times Country Buffet logo Ole Times Country Buffet - +5.0%
12 P Peachtree Cafe ▲1 +5.0%
13 H Hibachi Buffet - +3.3%
14 F Flaming Grill & Supreme Buffet ▲3 +2.9%
15 F Fried Tomato Buffet logo Fried Tomato Buffet - +0.3%
  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill
  • Pizza Ranch
  • Hibachi Grill & Supreme Buffet
  • Asian Buffet
  • Chuck-a-Rama
  • Grand Buffet
  • City Buffet
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,216 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill (359)
  • Pizza Ranch (84)
  • Hibachi Grill & Supreme Buffet (31)
  • Asian Buffet (41)
  • Chuck-a-Rama (7)
  • Grand Buffet (27)
  • City Buffet (6)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 G Golden Corral Buffet & Grill logo Golden Corral Buffet & Grill 359
  • 2 P Pizza Ranch logo Pizza Ranch 84
  • 3 A Asian Buffet 41
  • 4 H Hibachi Grill & Supreme Buffet 31
  • 5 G Grand Buffet 27
  • 6 H Hibachi Buffet 17
  • 7 B Buffet City 17
  • 8 O Ole Times Country Buffet logo Ole Times Country Buffet 13
  • 9 R Royal Buffet 12
  • 10 O Ocean Buffet 11
  • 11 L Lin's Grand Buffet 10
  • 12 I Ichiban Buffet 9
  • 13 S Sakura Buffet 9
  • 14 H Hibachi Grill Buffet 8
  • 15 A Asia Buffet 8
  • 16 E Empire Buffet 7
  • 17 S Super Buffet 7
  • 18 C Chuck-a-Rama logo Chuck-a-Rama 7
  • 19 F Flaming Grill & Supreme Buffet 6
  • 20 Y Yummy Buffet 6
  • 21 F Feast Buffet 6
  • 22 C City Buffet 6
  • 23 F Fusion Buffet 5
  • 24 E Eastern Buffet 5
  • 25 C Country Cupboard 5
  • 26 B Buffet Palace 4
  • 27 C Chow Time Grill & Buffet 4
  • 28 N New Super Buffet 4
  • 29 J Jade Buffet 4
  • 30 C China Super Buffet 4
  • 31 A Asian Fusion Buffet 4
  • 32 H Hibachi Grill and Supreme Buffet 4
  • 33 H Harvest Buffet 4
  • 34 F Fried Tomato Buffet logo Fried Tomato Buffet 4
  • 35 T Teppanyaki Grill 4
  • 36 B Buffet King 3
  • 37 H Hibachi Buffet & Grill 3
  • 38 F Fortune Star 3
  • 39 U United Buffet 3
  • 40 H Hibachi & Sushi Supreme Buffet 3
  • 41 H Hibachi Supreme Buffet 3
  • 42 S Sweet Tomatoes 3
  • 43 S Super Hibachi Buffet & Grill 3
  • 44 I Ichiban Grill 3
  • 45 W World Buffet and Grill 3
  • 46 B Bonfire Restaurant 3
  • 47 K Kings Buffet 3
  • 48 C China King Super Buffet 3
  • 49 A Atlantic Buffet 3
  • 50 B Beijing Buffet 3

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