Chain · United States · data through September 2026

Pappas Bar-B-Q

Iceflower tracks 25 Pappas Bar-B-Q stores across 1 US state. It ranks #10 of 6,195 tracked US barbecue chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +2.4% over the last year.

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 stores
25
States
1
Category
Barbecue
Category rank
#10

Growth

Pappas Bar-B-Q against its category

The biggest tracked US barbecue chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Pappas Bar-B-Q's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 Mission BBQ +1.6%
2 Sonny's BBQ -7.3%
3 Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q +8.7%
4 Bill Miller Bar-B-Q +0.7%
5 City Barbeque +17.3%
6 Famous Dave's -6.7%
7 Dickey's Barbecue Pit -13.6%
8 Moe's Original BBQ +4.4%
9 Smokey Bones -58.2%
10 Pappas Bar-B-Q +2.4%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 98.9 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

25 tracked Pappas Bar-B-Q locations across 1 US state. All of them are in Texas.

Tracked stores by state

Customer overlap

Who shops at Pappas Bar-B-Q

Tracked chains Pappas Bar-B-Q customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

H-E-B 100
Joe V's 82
Pappas Seafood House 65
Checkpoint 54
Frenchy's Chicken 51

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