Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ

Iceflower tracks 3,155 stores from 2,675 casual dining chains in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. Serafina grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Texas Roadhouse and Uno Pizzeria & Grill.

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
2,675
Tracked stores
3,155
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. Serafina and Texas Roadhouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Serafina ▲1 +10.4%
2 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - +7.2%
3 U Uno Pizzeria & Grill logo Uno Pizzeria & Grill - +6.5%
4 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +6.1%
5 T The Ainsworth ▲3 +5.1%
6 N Nathan's Famous logo Nathan's Famous ▲2 +3.4%
7 S Stewart's Root Beer - +2.8%
8 M Mangia ▲2 +2.4%
9 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - -0.3%
10 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - -1.7%
11 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - -2.3%
12 C Carrabba's Italian Grill logo Carrabba's Italian Grill - -5.1%
13 F Friedman's ▲2 -8.9%
14 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster - -9.6%
15 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse - -10.2%
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Olive Garden
  • LongHorn Steakhouse
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • B
  • Outback Steakhouse
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

3,155 tracked store locations in New York-Newark-Jersey City, NY-NJ. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (83)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (33)
  • Olive Garden (22)
  • LongHorn Steakhouse (19)
  • Texas Roadhouse (9)
  • B (1)
  • Outback Steakhouse (26)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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