Trends · data through September 2026

Barbecue in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 68 stores from 52 barbecue chains in Minnesota.

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
52
Tracked stores
68
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked barbecue 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. Old Southern BBQ and Famous Dave's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 O Old Southern BBQ logo Old Southern BBQ - +10.3%
2 F Famous Dave's logo Famous Dave's - -2.1%
  • Famous Dave's
  • Big Bore Barbecue Company
  • Old Southern BBQ
  • Mr Pig Stuff
  • Smoak BBQ
  • Fozzie's Smokin Bar B Q
  • Smokey's Pub N' Grill
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

68 tracked store locations in Minnesota. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Famous Dave's (13)
  • Big Bore Barbecue Company (1)
  • Old Southern BBQ (3)
  • Mr Pig Stuff (1)
  • Smoak BBQ (1)
  • Fozzie's Smokin Bar B Q (1)
  • Smokey's Pub N' Grill (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 F Famous Dave's logo Famous Dave's 13
  • 2 O Old Southern BBQ logo Old Southern BBQ 3
  • 3 W West Indies Soul Food 2
  • 4 D Dickey's Barbecue Pit logo Dickey's Barbecue Pit 2
  • 5 T Tig's Smok'n Pig BBQ 1
  • 6 S Smokey Jake's BBQ Restaurant 1
  • 7 B Blue Bricks 1
  • 8 T The Fabled Rooster 1
  • 9 U Up In Smoke BBQ 1
  • 10 S Soul To Soul Smokehouse 1
  • 11 T The BBQ Smokehouse 1
  • 12 J Just Turkey 1
  • 13 S Smokin' Mortars BBQ and Meat Market 1
  • 14 T The BBQ Smokehouse PLUS 1
  • 15 S Smoke in the Pit 1
  • 16 S Scott Ja-Mama's 1
  • 17 S Sweet Winks 1
  • 18 C Come and Take It BBQ 1
  • 19 E Erickson's Smokehouse Bar & Grill 1
  • 20 S Smokin Bonez 1
  • 21 C Chad's Meat Wagon 1
  • 22 A Animales Barbeque Co. 1
  • 23 J Jimmie Andrsn's Old Southern Br-B-Que 1
  • 24 E East Coast BBQ 1
  • 25 M Market Bar-B-Que 1
  • 26 M Meson 1
  • 27 S Smoke & Fire 1
  • 28 W Whlbrgrs Bloomington 1 1
  • 29 S Smoak BBQ 1
  • 30 F Fozzie's Smokin Bar B Q 1
  • 31 S Smokey's Pub N' Grill 1
  • 32 D D's Smokehouse 1
  • 33 M Mr Pig Stuff 1
  • 34 T Ted Cook's 19th Hole BBQ 1
  • 35 R Rack Shack BBQ 1
  • 36 A Asia Fusion Kitchen 1
  • 37 B Baker's Ribs 1
  • 38 J John Hardy's Bar-B-Q 1
  • 39 R RC's BBQ 1
  • 40 H Hickory Hut 1
  • 41 Q Q Fanatic BBQ & Grill 1
  • 42 S Smoke 1
  • 43 2 2 Brothers Bar and Grill 1
  • 44 Z ZZQ Smokehouse 1
  • 45 B Beast Barbecue 1
  • 46 T The Piggy BBQ 1
  • 47 S Smokestack Express 1
  • 48 R Rack's Bar & Grill 1
  • 49 R Rooster's BBQ Deli 1
  • 50 S Smoke Session BBQ 1

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