Trends · data through September 2026

Buffets in South Carolina

Iceflower tracks 71 stores from 38 buffets in South Carolina. Cicis Pizza grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Golden Corral Buffet & Grill and China Buffet.

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
38
Tracked stores
71
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked buffets

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. Cicis Pizza and Golden Corral Buffet & Grill sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cicis Pizza logo Cicis Pizza - +1.5%
2 G Golden Corral Buffet & Grill logo Golden Corral Buffet & Grill - +0.3%
3 C China Buffet - -2.6%
4 E Eastern Buffet - -2.7%
5 H Hibachi Grill - -11.1%
  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill
  • Cicis Pizza
  • Eastern Buffet
  • China Buffet
  • Bj Country Buffet
  • Sakura Hibachi Buffet
  • Grand Buffet
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Golden Corral Buffet & Grill (9)
  • Cicis Pizza (11)
  • Eastern Buffet (3)
  • China Buffet (9)
  • Bj Country Buffet (1)
  • Sakura Hibachi Buffet (1)
  • Grand Buffet (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Cicis Pizza logo Cicis Pizza 11
  • 2 G Golden Corral Buffet & Grill logo Golden Corral Buffet & Grill 9
  • 3 C China Buffet 9
  • 4 H Hibachi Grill 6
  • 5 E Eastern Buffet 3
  • 6 B Bj Country Buffet 1
  • 7 H Hibachi Buffet & Grill 1
  • 8 T Tokyo buffet 1
  • 9 J Joy Wok 1
  • 10 B Blossom Buffet 1
  • 11 T Thunderbird Country Buffet 1
  • 12 5 521 Country Cooking 1
  • 13 S Second Mill Grill 1
  • 14 P Pam's Restaurant 1
  • 15 B Bonfire Restaurant 1
  • 16 E Express China 1
  • 17 H Hibachi and Grill Asian Buffet 1
  • 18 P Prime Buffet 1
  • 19 A Admiral's Room 1
  • 20 B Big E's Country Buffet & Seafood 1
  • 21 G Golden China Buffet 1
  • 22 S Southern Fried Restaurant and Catering 1
  • 23 S Sakura Hibachi Buffet 1
  • 24 G Grand Buffet 1
  • 25 C Captain George's Seafood Restaurant logo Captain George's Seafood Restaurant 1
  • 26 A Asian Fusion Buffet 1
  • 27 C Captain Bennett's Calabash Seafood Buffet 1
  • 28 F Flaming Grill & Supreme Buffet 1
  • 29 G Ginza Buffet of Rock Hill 1
  • 30 W Western Sizzlin logo Western Sizzlin 1
  • 31 N NY Hibachi & Sushi Buffet 1
  • 32 E Epic Buffet 1
  • 33 I Imperial Grill 1
  • 34 M Magnolias at 26th 1
  • 35 W Wa Chang Buffet 1
  • 36 C Carolina Buffet 1
  • 37 P Panda Palace 1
  • 38 H Hong Kong Buffet 1

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