Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

Iceflower tracks 12,127 stores from 4,827 food & drink chains in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. Luby's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chili's Grill & Bar and Smoothie King.

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
4,827
Tracked stores
12,127
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked food & drink 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. Luby's and Chili's Grill & Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L Luby's logo Luby's ▲10 +19.0%
2 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲2 +15.0%
3 S Smoothie King logo Smoothie King ▲5 +14.3%
4 A Arby's logo Arby's ▲7 +12.7%
5 P Pluckers Wing Bar logo Pluckers Wing Bar ▲7 +12.4%
6 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲9 +11.5%
7 J Jakes Burgers and Beer ▲12 +10.0%
8 H HTeaO logo HTeaO ▲7 +8.8%
9 L Layne's Chicken Fingers logo Layne's Chicken Fingers ▲8 +8.7%
10 S Saltgrass Steak House logo Saltgrass Steak House ▲4 +8.7%
11 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲10 +8.7%
12 T Texas de Brazil logo Texas de Brazil ▲6 +8.3%
13 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲5 +8.2%
14 F Fish N Tails Oyster Bar ▲10 +7.5%
15 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee ▲3 +7.3%

Store footprint

Store map

12,127 tracked store locations in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, colored by category.

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