Trends · data through September 2026

Family Restaurants & Diners in Kansas City, MO-KS

Iceflower tracks 88 stores from 35 family restaurants & diners in Kansas City, MO-KS. Waffle House grew fastest over the last year, ahead of IHOP and Denny's.

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
35
Tracked stores
88
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. Waffle House and IHOP sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +9.4%
2 I IHOP logo IHOP - +4.0%
3 D Denny's logo Denny's - -6.8%
4 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store - -12.5%
  • IHOP
  • Waffle House
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
  • Black Bear Diner
  • Perkins American Food Co.
  • Denny's
  • Lula Southern Cookhouse
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

88 tracked store locations in Kansas City, MO-KS. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • IHOP (23)
  • Waffle House (15)
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (5)
  • Black Bear Diner (2)
  • Perkins American Food Co. (5)
  • Denny's (7)
  • Lula Southern Cookhouse (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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