Trends · data through August 2026

Restaurants in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 962 stores from 710 restaurants chains in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Texas Roadhouse and CAVA.

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
710
Tracked stores
962
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked restaurants 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. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Texas Roadhouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ▲3 +16.8%
2 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - +12.1%
3 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲1 +8.0%
4 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +6.3%
5 S Santa Fe Burrito Grill ▲1 +6.0%
6 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - +3.8%
7 C Chilacates logo Chilacates - +2.1%
8 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +2.0%
9 B bb.q Chicken logo bb.q Chicken - +1.2%
10 T The Cheesecake Factory logo The Cheesecake Factory ▲1 +0.6%
11 9 99 Restaurants logo 99 Restaurants - -0.7%
12 Y Yard House logo Yard House - -0.9%
13 B Burtons Grill & Bar logo Burtons Grill & Bar - -1.9%
14 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden ▲1 -2.1%
15 B Barcelona Wine Bar - -3.5%
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • The Cheesecake Factory
  • Tavern in the Square
  • Legal Sea Foods
  • Eataly
  • Yard House
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

962 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (58)
  • The Cheesecake Factory (6)
  • Tavern in the Square (11)
  • Legal Sea Foods (6)
  • Eataly (1)
  • Yard House (4)
  • Texas Roadhouse (7)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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