Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Kansas City, MO-KS

Iceflower tracks 1,618 stores from 583 food & drink chains in Kansas City, MO-KS. LongHorn Steakhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Papa John's Pizza and Chick-fil-A.

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
583
Tracked stores
1,618
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. LongHorn Steakhouse and Papa John's Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲2 +15.2%
2 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲4 +14.9%
3 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +13.5%
4 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's ▲2 +12.0%
5 S Scooter's Coffee logo Scooter's Coffee ▲7 +10.5%
6 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee ▲4 +9.4%
7 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲3 +9.1%
8 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen - +8.8%
9 G Gates Bar-B-Q logo Gates Bar-B-Q ▲6 +8.4%
10 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲1 +8.4%
11 M McAlister's Deli logo McAlister's Deli ▲1 +6.0%
12 D Denny's logo Denny's ▲1 +5.2%
13 T Twin Peaks Restaurants logo Twin Peaks Restaurants ▲3 +3.8%
14 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲3 +3.7%
15 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▲2 +3.6%

Store footprint

Store map

1,618 tracked store locations in Kansas City, MO-KS, colored by category.

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