Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 542 stores from 412 casual dining chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Chili's Grill & Bar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Texas Roadhouse and LongHorn Steakhouse.

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
412
Tracked stores
542
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. Chili's Grill & Bar and Texas Roadhouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - +7.8%
2 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲1 +4.5%
3 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +4.0%
4 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - -1.8%
5 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden ▼1 -2.0%
6 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse - -2.0%
7 C Carrabba's Italian Grill logo Carrabba's Italian Grill ▲2 -3.0%
8 B Bad Daddy's Burger Bar logo Bad Daddy's Burger Bar - -3.5%
9 D Duckworth's Grill & Taphouse - -5.1%
10 S Showmars logo Showmars - -6.4%
11 R Ruby Tuesday logo Ruby Tuesday - -6.7%
12 T TGI Fridays logo TGI Fridays - -8.1%
13 L Logan's Roadhouse logo Logan's Roadhouse - -10.0%
14 C City Grill & Wings - -14.2%
15 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers ▼1 -18.3%
  • LongHorn Steakhouse
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Olive Garden
  • Outback Steakhouse
  • Bad Daddy's Burger Bar
  • Duckworth's Grill & Taphouse
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • LongHorn Steakhouse (11)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (15)
  • Texas Roadhouse (5)
  • Olive Garden (10)
  • Outback Steakhouse (13)
  • Bad Daddy's Burger Bar (5)
  • Duckworth's Grill & Taphouse (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.

Working in restaurants and QSR? See consumer transaction data for restaurants and QSR →