Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in Arkansas

Iceflower tracks 484 stores from 371 casual dining chains in Arkansas. Red Lobster grew fastest over the last year, ahead of LongHorn Steakhouse and Little Italy.

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
371
Tracked stores
484
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. Red Lobster and LongHorn Steakhouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster - +10.2%
2 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +9.6%
3 L Little Italy - +7.1%
4 C Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen logo Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen ▲1 +6.4%
5 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - +1.7%
6 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - +1.4%
7 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers ▲2 +0.4%
8 S Saltgrass Steak House logo Saltgrass Steak House ▼1 -1.2%
9 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - -1.5%
10 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse - -6.1%
11 T TGI Fridays logo TGI Fridays ▲2 -7.9%
12 D Doe's Eat Place ▲1 -10.2%
13 B BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse logo BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse - -14.0%
14 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - -18.2%
15 F Fazoli's logo Fazoli's ▲1 -19.4%
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Olive Garden
  • LongHorn Steakhouse
  • Colton's Steak House & Grill
  • Outback Steakhouse
  • Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

484 tracked store locations in Arkansas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Texas Roadhouse (9)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (18)
  • Olive Garden (10)
  • LongHorn Steakhouse (7)
  • Colton's Steak House & Grill (12)
  • Outback Steakhouse (8)
  • Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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