Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Omaha, NE-IA

Iceflower tracks 2,021 stores from 1,258 food & drink chains in Omaha, NE-IA. Stories Coffee Co. grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Perkins American Food Co. and LongHorn Steakhouse.

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
1,258
Tracked stores
2,021
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked food & drink 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. Stories Coffee Co. and Perkins American Food Co. sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Stories Coffee Co. ▲10 +18.8%
2 Perkins American Food Co. ▲4 +15.2%
3 LongHorn Steakhouse ▲6 +14.8%
4 Qdoba ▲6 +14.6%
5 Pizza Ranch ▲6 +14.0%
6 Culver's ▲1 +13.0%
7 Smoothie King ▲4 +11.6%
8 The Beanery ▲5 +10.9%
9 Panera Bread ▲2 +10.9%
10 Eileen's Colossal Cookies ▲1 +9.2%
11 Scooter's Coffee ▲1 +8.5%
12 Firehouse Subs ▲5 +8.5%
13 Outback Steakhouse ▲1 +8.1%
14 Auntie Anne's - +7.0%
15 Texas Roadhouse - +6.9%

Store footprint

Store map

2,021 tracked store locations in Omaha, NE-IA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 268 of the 2,021 stores (13%); 1,115 of the 1,258 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked food & drink stores here are Mexican restaurants & taquerias, against 7% across Nebraska.

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.

Working in restaurants and QSR? See consumer transaction data for restaurants and QSR →