Trends · data through September 2026

Upscale Casual in the United States

Iceflower tracks 1,811 stores from 103 upscale casual chains in the United States. Earls Kitchen + Bar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Alcove and The Henry.

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
103
Tracked stores
1,811
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked upscale casual 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. Earls Kitchen + Bar and Alcove sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 E Earls Kitchen + Bar logo Earls Kitchen + Bar ▲3 +18.0%
2 A Alcove ▲4 +16.9%
3 T The Henry ▲3 +16.9%
4 V Valentina's ▲4 +15.9%
5 H Haywire ▲2 +15.3%
6 L Local Table ▲4 +12.6%
7 T Taverna ▲6 +12.0%
8 T The Hampton Social logo The Hampton Social ▲2 +10.9%
9 S Sedona Taphouse logo Sedona Taphouse - +10.2%
10 T The Hudson ▲2 +6.3%
11 N North Italia logo North Italia ▲1 +5.9%
12 C Culinary Dropout ▲1 +5.7%
13 L Le Colonial logo Le Colonial ▲2 +5.5%
14 Y Yard House logo Yard House - +5.4%
15 R Redstone American Grill logo Redstone American Grill ▼2 +5.2%
  • The Cheesecake Factory
  • Yard House
  • P.F. Chang's
  • Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant
  • Bonefish Grill
  • Firebirds Wood Fired Grill
  • Maggiano's Little Italy
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,811 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • The Cheesecake Factory (253)
  • Yard House (100)
  • P.F. Chang's (232)
  • Cooper's Hawk Winery & Restaurant (69)
  • Bonefish Grill (177)
  • Firebirds Wood Fired Grill (63)
  • Maggiano's Little Italy (53)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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