Trends · data through September 2026

Barbecue in South Carolina

Iceflower tracks 217 stores from 177 barbecue chains in South Carolina. Maurice's BBQ grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Home Team BBQ and Little Pigs BBQ.

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
177
Tracked stores
217
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked barbecue 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. Maurice's BBQ and Home Team BBQ sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Maurice's BBQ logo Maurice's BBQ ▲1 +13.0%
2 H Home Team BBQ - +10.8%
3 L Little Pigs BBQ - +5.8%
4 S Swig & Swine logo Swig & Swine - +4.9%
5 M Moe's Original BBQ logo Moe's Original BBQ ▲1 -8.3%
6 S Shane's Rib Shack logo Shane's Rib Shack ▼2 -55.1%
7 S Sticky Fingers logo Sticky Fingers - -98.8%
  • Home Team BBQ
  • Lewis Barbecue
  • Swig & Swine
  • Southbound Smokehouse
  • Duke's Bar-B-Q
  • Palmira Barbecue
  • The Smokehouse
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

217 tracked store locations in South Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Home Team BBQ (6)
  • Lewis Barbecue (2)
  • Swig & Swine (3)
  • Southbound Smokehouse (2)
  • Duke's Bar-B-Q (2)
  • Palmira Barbecue (1)
  • The Smokehouse (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 L Little Pigs BBQ 7
  • 2 H Home Team BBQ 6
  • 3 M Maurice's BBQ logo Maurice's BBQ 5
  • 4 S Shane's Rib Shack logo Shane's Rib Shack 4
  • 5 M Moe's Original BBQ logo Moe's Original BBQ 4
  • 6 S Swig & Swine logo Swig & Swine 3
  • 7 S Sticky Fingers logo Sticky Fingers 3
  • 8 T True BBQ 2
  • 9 T The Pot Smoker BBQ 2
  • 10 H Henry's Smokehouse 2
  • 11 P Palmetto Pig BBQ 2
  • 12 W Ward's Bar-B-Q 2
  • 13 D Dickey's Barbecue Pit logo Dickey's Barbecue Pit 2
  • 14 H Hogg Heaven 2
  • 15 H Holt Bros BBQ 2
  • 16 B Bar-B-Que House 2
  • 17 D Dukes Barbecue 2
  • 18 L Lewis Barbecue 2
  • 19 M Mission BBQ logo Mission BBQ 2
  • 20 D Duke's Bar-B-Q 2
  • 21 S Southbound Smokehouse 2
  • 22 T The Smokin' Pig 2
  • 23 C City Limits Barbeque 1
  • 24 B Brisket 1
  • 25 M Michael D'z BBQ 1
  • 26 B BC Steak and BBQ 1
  • 27 L Lee's Barbecue & Catering Service 1
  • 28 T The Porkette 1
  • 29 T This Little Piggy 1
  • 30 X Xclusive's Barbecue 1
  • 31 M Mike & Jeff's BBQ Catering 1
  • 32 B Bluegrass BBQ and Catering 1
  • 33 W Woodstone BBQ 1
  • 34 B Big D's House of BBQ 1
  • 35 T The Kakery at Stone House 1
  • 36 C Country Cousins BBQ 1
  • 37 M MooHogz Craft BBQ 1
  • 38 H Hub City Hog Fest 1
  • 39 M Middleton & Maker Village BBQ 1
  • 40 C Crossroads BBQ 1
  • 41 K Kenny's BBQ 1
  • 42 C Circle M Barbecue 1
  • 43 W Westwood BBQ 1
  • 44 S Smokin Pig Express 1
  • 45 D Daddy Joe's Beach House BBQ and Grill 1
  • 46 B Bad Man Barbecue 1
  • 47 P Palmetto Smoke-House BBQ 1
  • 48 C Cain's Bar-B-Que 1
  • 49 B Boondocks Fish Camp & BBQ 1
  • 50 B Bonfire Taqueria 1

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