Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in Maine

Iceflower tracks 438 stores from 383 casual dining chains in Maine. LongHorn Steakhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Tradewinds 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
383
Tracked stores
438
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. LongHorn Steakhouse and Tradewinds sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲1 +13.9%
2 T Tradewinds ▲1 +9.0%
3 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - +5.5%
4 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▼1 +4.1%
5 S Sam's Italian Foods - +2.9%
6 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - -3.8%
7 9 99 Restaurants logo 99 Restaurants - -4.1%
8 R Ruby Tuesday logo Ruby Tuesday ▼1 -44.1%
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • LongHorn Steakhouse
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Olive Garden
  • 99 Restaurants
  • Dysart's Restaurant and Truck Stop
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

438 tracked store locations in Maine. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (13)
  • LongHorn Steakhouse (5)
  • Texas Roadhouse (3)
  • Olive Garden (4)
  • 99 Restaurants (4)
  • Dysart's Restaurant and Truck Stop (2)
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar 13
  • 2 S Sam's Italian Foods 12
  • 3 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse 5
  • 4 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden 4
  • 5 9 99 Restaurants logo 99 Restaurants 4
  • 6 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse 3
  • 7 G Governor's Restaurant and Bakery 3
  • 8 R Ruby Tuesday logo Ruby Tuesday 3
  • 9 T Tradewinds 3
  • 10 H High Tide 2
  • 11 T The Shack 2
  • 12 H Helen's Restaurant 2
  • 13 U Uno Pizzeria & Grill logo Uno Pizzeria & Grill 2
  • 14 T The Good Table 2
  • 15 D Duckfat 2
  • 16 T The Barnacle 2
  • 17 C Campfire Grille 2
  • 18 P Ports of Italy 2
  • 19 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar 2
  • 20 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers 2
  • 21 D Dysart's Restaurant and Truck Stop 2
  • 22 G Governor's Restaurant & Bakery 2
  • 23 T The Spot 2
  • 24 U Union Bluff Hotel logo Union Bluff Hotel 1
  • 25 N North43Bistro 1
  • 26 C Clay Hill Farm 1
  • 27 D Davids 388 Restaurant 1
  • 28 L Linden + Front 1
  • 29 R River Drivers Restaurant 1
  • 30 P Peppermill Restaurant 1
  • 31 5 50 Local 1
  • 32 J Jordan Pond House 1
  • 33 T The White Elephant 1
  • 34 F Finback Alehouse 1
  • 35 I Ivey's Bistro 1
  • 36 B Birdies Grill and Tavern 1
  • 37 T The Freedom Cafe & Pub 1
  • 38 B Backstrap Bar and Grill 1
  • 39 T The Omelette Factory 1
  • 40 S Southgate Family Restaurant 1
  • 41 S Shays Grill Pub 1
  • 42 T The Lost Kitchen logo The Lost Kitchen 1
  • 43 T The Butcher The Baker 1
  • 44 B Britt's Cafe 1
  • 45 A Ada's Kitchen 1
  • 46 P Portage Tap House 1
  • 47 T Thames Landing 1
  • 48 W Waterworks Restaurant 1
  • 49 T Thatcher's Restaurant 1
  • 50 S Sportsman's Kitchen & Keg 1

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