Trends · data through September 2026

Family Restaurants & Diners in Arizona

Iceflower tracks 281 stores from 78 family restaurants & diners in Arizona. Waffle House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of 5 & Diner and Black Bear Diner.

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
78
Tracked stores
281
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked family restaurants & diners

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. Waffle House and 5 & Diner sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +17.4%
2 5 5 & Diner - +12.2%
3 B Black Bear Diner logo Black Bear Diner - +7.8%
4 J Jerry Bob's - +7.4%
5 I IHOP logo IHOP ▲1 +4.6%
6 M Mimi's Cafe logo Mimi's Cafe - +2.5%
7 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store - +2.1%
8 D Denny's logo Denny's ▼1 -13.6%
9 V Village Inn logo Village Inn - -16.1%
  • IHOP
  • Denny's
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
  • Black Bear Diner
  • Waffle House
  • Village Inn
  • Rock Springs Cafe
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

281 tracked store locations in Arizona. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • IHOP (44)
  • Denny's (84)
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (14)
  • Black Bear Diner (16)
  • Waffle House (15)
  • Village Inn (24)
  • Rock Springs Cafe (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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