Trends · data through September 2026

Family Restaurants & Diners in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL

Iceflower tracks 35 stores from 16 family restaurants & diners in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Perkins American Food Co. and Waffle House.

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
16
Tracked stores
35
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked family restaurants & diners

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. Cracker Barrel Old Country Store and Perkins American Food Co. sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store - +9.6%
2 P Perkins American Food Co. logo Perkins American Food Co. - +9.2%
3 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +7.3%
4 B Bob Evans logo Bob Evans - +5.9%
5 M Metro Diner logo Metro Diner - +3.7%
6 P Popi's Place III - -28.3%
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
  • Popi's Place III
  • Metro Diner
  • Waffle House
  • Bob Evans
  • Perkins American Food Co.
  • IHOP
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

35 tracked store locations in North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, FL. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (3)
  • Popi's Place III (5)
  • Metro Diner (3)
  • Waffle House (5)
  • Bob Evans (4)
  • Perkins American Food Co. (3)
  • IHOP (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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