Trends · data through August 2026

Breakfast Restaurants in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 86 stores from 15 breakfast restaurants chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Waffle House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of IHOP and Biscuitville.

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
15
Tracked stores
86
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked breakfast 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. Waffle House and IHOP sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +1.4%
2 I IHOP logo IHOP - -1.7%
3 B Biscuitville logo Biscuitville - -3.3%
4 F First Watch logo First Watch - -12.5%
  • Waffle House
  • First Watch
  • IHOP
  • Biscuitville
  • The Original Pancake House
  • Snooze, an A.M. Eatery
  • Eggspectation
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

86 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Waffle House (43)
  • First Watch (11)
  • IHOP (13)
  • Biscuitville (6)
  • The Original Pancake House (2)
  • Snooze, an A.M. Eatery (2)
  • Eggspectation (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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