Trends · data through September 2026

Buffets in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 51 stores from 29 buffets in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Royal Buffet grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Super China Buffet and Golden Corral Buffet & Grill.

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
29
Tracked stores
51
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked buffets

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. Royal Buffet and Super China Buffet sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 R Royal Buffet - +15.0%
2 S Super China Buffet - +8.4%
3 G Golden Corral Buffet & Grill logo Golden Corral Buffet & Grill - -2.3%
4 C China Buffet - -38.3%
  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill
  • Grand Victoria Buffet
  • Royal Buffet
  • Super China Buffet
  • Shiki Buffet
  • Asian Grill Sushi Buffet
  • BC Osaka
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

51 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill (12)
  • Grand Victoria Buffet (1)
  • Royal Buffet (3)
  • Super China Buffet (3)
  • Shiki Buffet (2)
  • Asian Grill Sushi Buffet (1)
  • BC Osaka (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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