Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 16,939 stores from 8,087 food & drink chains in Illinois. Tous Les Jours grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chili's Grill & Bar and First Watch.

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
8,087
Tracked stores
16,939
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. Tous Les Jours and Chili's Grill & Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tous Les Jours logo Tous Les Jours ▲17 +19.7%
2 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲2 +19.0%
3 F First Watch logo First Watch ▲17 +18.9%
4 B Buttermilk ▲14 +18.2%
5 B Baba's Famous Steak & Lemonade ▲13 +17.9%
6 B BIBIBOP Asian Grill logo BIBIBOP Asian Grill ▲14 +17.9%
7 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - +17.8%
8 P Perry's Steakhouse & Grille ▲16 +16.3%
9 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲6 +13.8%
10 T The Patio ▲11 +12.9%
11 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster ▲6 +12.7%
12 L Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar logo Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar ▲8 +11.9%
13 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲5 +10.7%
14 L La Mexicanita ▲14 +9.9%
15 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars - +9.5%

Store footprint

Store map

16,939 tracked store locations in Illinois, colored by category.

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