Trends · data through September 2026

Family Restaurants & Diners in Texas

Iceflower tracks 1,196 stores from 306 family restaurants & diners in Texas. Kerbey Lane Cafe grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Black Bear Diner and Jim's.

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
306
Tracked stores
1,196
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. Kerbey Lane Cafe and Black Bear Diner sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 K Kerbey Lane Cafe logo Kerbey Lane Cafe ▲2 +16.2%
2 B Black Bear Diner logo Black Bear Diner - +16.0%
3 J Jim's - +13.1%
4 T Texas Inn - +11.5%
5 L Luby's logo Luby's - +5.9%
6 D Danny's Restaurant - +5.4%
7 W Waffle House logo Waffle House - +5.3%
8 M Mama's Daughters' Diner logo Mama's Daughters' Diner ▲2 +2.1%
9 V Village Inn logo Village Inn - +0.7%
10 I IHOP logo IHOP - -0.0%
11 H House of Pies ▼1 -2.3%
12 G Grandy's logo Grandy's - -3.0%
13 C Cracker Barrel Old Country Store logo Cracker Barrel Old Country Store - -5.2%
14 D Denny's logo Denny's - -7.2%
15 K Kelley's Country Cookin' ▼1 -10.4%
  • IHOP
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
  • Denny's
  • Waffle House
  • Luby's
  • Black Bear Diner
  • Village Inn
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,196 tracked store locations in Texas. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • IHOP (239)
  • Cracker Barrel Old Country Store (65)
  • Denny's (217)
  • Waffle House (135)
  • Luby's (85)
  • Black Bear Diner (26)
  • Village Inn (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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