Trends · data through September 2026

Family Restaurants & Diners in Indiana

Iceflower tracks 338 stores from 135 family restaurants & diners in Indiana. Perkins American Food Co. grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Waffle House and MCL Restaurant & Bakery.

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
135
Tracked stores
338
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked family restaurants & diners

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. Perkins American Food Co. and Waffle House sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Perkins American Food Co. logo Perkins American Food Co. ▲1 +7.1%
2 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +5.2%
3 M MCL Restaurant & Bakery ▲1 +4.9%
4 I IHOP logo IHOP - -1.7%
5 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store - -4.0%
6 D Denny's logo Denny's ▲1 -4.5%
7 B Blueberry Hill Pancake House ▼1 -7.9%
8 B Bob Evans logo Bob Evans ▼1 -10.0%
9 R Richards Restaurant - -12.1%
10 F Frisch's Big Boy logo Frisch's Big Boy ▼1 -31.9%
11 G Grandy's logo Grandy's - -100.0%
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
  • IHOP
  • Denny's
  • Bob Evans
  • Waffle House
  • Metro Diner
  • Das Dutchman Essenhaus
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

338 tracked store locations in Indiana. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (29)
  • IHOP (27)
  • Denny's (31)
  • Bob Evans (47)
  • Waffle House (28)
  • Metro Diner (6)
  • Das Dutchman Essenhaus (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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