Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Raleigh-Cary, NC

Iceflower tracks 2,406 stores from 1,417 food & drink chains in Raleigh-Cary, NC. Outback Steakhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Char-Grill and City Barbeque.

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
1,417
Tracked stores
2,406
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. Outback Steakhouse and Char-Grill sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse ▲6 +19.6%
2 C Char-Grill logo Char-Grill ▲4 +16.3%
3 C City Barbeque logo City Barbeque ▲4 +14.5%
4 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba ▲6 +9.7%
5 C Cook Out logo Cook Out ▲2 +9.5%
6 D Don Beto's Tacos ▲9 +6.6%
7 H Hibachi 88 ▲5 +5.8%
8 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's ▲1 +4.2%
9 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store ▲1 +4.1%
10 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▲5 +3.6%
11 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲6 +3.1%
12 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲1 +2.3%
13 W Waffle House logo Waffle House ▲2 +2.3%
14 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲1 +2.3%
15 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +1.4%

Store footprint

Store map

2,406 tracked store locations in Raleigh-Cary, NC, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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