Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in the United States

Iceflower tracks 59,672 stores from 37,589 casual dining chains in the United States. Marlow's Tavern grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Spot and Jasper's.

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
37,589
Tracked stores
59,672
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. Marlow's Tavern and The Spot sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Marlow's Tavern logo Marlow's Tavern ▲27 +18.7%
2 T The Spot ▲4 +18.5%
3 J Jasper's ▲8 +18.5%
4 A Aubrey's logo Aubrey's ▲6 +17.8%
5 T The Nest ▲13 +16.5%
6 P Peter Luger Steak House logo Peter Luger Steak House ▲4 +13.4%
7 E Epic Chophouse ▲14 +11.4%
8 E Eli's Sports Bar & Grill ▲15 +11.0%
9 T The Sicilian Butcher ▲17 +10.1%
10 L Limoncello ▲11 +10.1%
11 R Rodizio Grill logo Rodizio Grill ▲4 +9.5%
12 O Off The Hook ▲15 +9.5%
13 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +8.9%
14 T The Grove ▲7 +8.4%
15 T The Patio ▲12 +8.2%
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Olive Garden
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • LongHorn Steakhouse
  • Outback Steakhouse
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 59,672 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Texas Roadhouse (722)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (1,294)
  • Olive Garden (895)
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (1,543)
  • LongHorn Steakhouse (638)
  • Outback Steakhouse (725)
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (496)
  • Other tracked chains

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