Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX

Iceflower tracks 288 stores from 209 casual dining chains in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX. Texas Roadhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of LongHorn Steakhouse and Willie's Grill & Icehouse.

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
209
Tracked stores
288
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. Texas Roadhouse and LongHorn Steakhouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - +15.6%
2 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +10.3%
3 W Willie's Grill & Icehouse logo Willie's Grill & Icehouse ▲1 +2.5%
4 J Jack Allen's Kitchen - +0.4%
5 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - +0.1%
6 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - -2.4%
7 S Saltgrass Steak House logo Saltgrass Steak House - -3.5%
8 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster ▲1 -4.3%
9 C Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen logo Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen ▼1 -8.1%
10 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar ▼1 -13.4%
11 B BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse logo BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse - -18.0%
12 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse - -18.0%
13 W Waterloo Ice House - -21.5%
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Olive Garden
  • Jack Allen's Kitchen
  • LongHorn Steakhouse
  • BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse
  • Saltgrass Steak House
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

288 tracked store locations in Austin-Round Rock-San Marcos, TX. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chili's Grill & Bar (19)
  • Texas Roadhouse (6)
  • Olive Garden (5)
  • Jack Allen's Kitchen (4)
  • LongHorn Steakhouse (6)
  • BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse (4)
  • Saltgrass Steak House (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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