Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 2,153 stores from 1,643 casual dining chains in North Carolina. Harrison's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Village Grill and Twisted Laurel.

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
1,643
Tracked stores
2,153
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. Harrison's and Village Grill sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Harrison's ▲3 +15.3%
2 V Village Grill ▲2 +14.3%
3 T Twisted Laurel - +11.6%
4 P Piada Italian Street Food logo Piada Italian Street Food ▼1 +9.2%
5 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse - +8.0%
6 N Nantucket Grill ▲1 +4.7%
7 C Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen logo Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen - +4.1%
8 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - +3.9%
9 T The Spot ▲1 +2.1%
10 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - +2.0%
11 C Coach's Neighborhood Grill ▲1 +1.5%
12 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse - +1.1%
13 T The Loop Restaurant ▼1 +0.8%
14 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - -0.2%
15 C Carrabba's Italian Grill logo Carrabba's Italian Grill - -2.0%
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Olive Garden
  • LongHorn Steakhouse
  • Outback Steakhouse
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,153 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Texas Roadhouse (20)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (47)
  • Olive Garden (32)
  • LongHorn Steakhouse (31)
  • Outback Steakhouse (39)
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (41)
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (18)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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