Trends · data through September 2026

Buffets in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX

Iceflower tracks 137 stores from 29 buffets in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. Hartz Chicken Buffet grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cicis Pizza 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
137
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. Hartz Chicken Buffet and Cicis Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Hartz Chicken Buffet logo Hartz Chicken Buffet ▲1 +1.3%
2 C Cicis Pizza logo Cicis Pizza ▼1 +0.9%
3 G Golden Corral Buffet & Grill logo Golden Corral Buffet & Grill - -1.1%
4 D Dimassi's Mediterranean Buffet - -12.5%
5 C China Buffet - -40.8%
  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill
  • Hartz Chicken Buffet
  • Cicis Pizza
  • Dimassi's Mediterranean Buffet
  • Feast Buffet
  • Grand Buffet
  • China Star Seafood Buffet
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

137 tracked store locations in Houston-Pasadena-The Woodlands, TX. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill (11)
  • Hartz Chicken Buffet (59)
  • Cicis Pizza (30)
  • Dimassi's Mediterranean Buffet (6)
  • Feast Buffet (1)
  • Grand Buffet (1)
  • China Star Seafood Buffet (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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