Trends · data through September 2026

Buffets in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 93 stores from 48 buffets in Illinois. 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
48
Tracked stores
93
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 - +11.1%
2 S Super China Buffet - +2.2%
3 G Golden Corral Buffet & Grill logo Golden Corral Buffet & Grill - -2.9%
4 C China Buffet - -37.8%
  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill
  • Grand Victoria Buffet
  • Pizza Ranch
  • Royal Buffet
  • Super China Buffet
  • Shiki Buffet
  • Asian Grill Sushi Buffet
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

93 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill (16)
  • Grand Victoria Buffet (1)
  • Pizza Ranch (10)
  • Royal Buffet (3)
  • Super China Buffet (3)
  • Shiki Buffet (2)
  • Asian Grill Sushi Buffet (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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