Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in Knoxville, TN

Iceflower tracks 171 stores from 119 casual dining chains in Knoxville, TN. Outback Steakhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Aubrey's and Applebee's Grill + Bar.

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
119
Tracked stores
171
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked casual dining 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. Outback Steakhouse and Aubrey's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse - +11.8%
2 A Aubrey's logo Aubrey's - +11.7%
3 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - +5.3%
4 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - +5.1%
5 C Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen logo Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen - -1.3%
6 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - -2.4%
7 T The Soup Kitchen - -8.1%
8 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster ▲1 -9.2%
9 R Ruby Tuesday logo Ruby Tuesday ▼1 -21.2%
10 O O'Charley's logo O'Charley's - -26.5%
11 P Petro's Chili & Chips - -30.7%
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Aubrey's
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • Olive Garden
  • Outback Steakhouse
  • Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

171 tracked store locations in Knoxville, TN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Texas Roadhouse (6)
  • Aubrey's (10)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (6)
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (5)
  • Olive Garden (2)
  • Outback Steakhouse (3)
  • Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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