Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Texas

Iceflower tracks 37,587 stores from 14,396 food & drink chains in Texas. Terry Black's Barbecue grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Culver's and Layne's Chicken Fingers.

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
14,396
Tracked stores
37,587
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. Terry Black's Barbecue and Culver's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Terry Black's Barbecue ▲10 +18.6%
2 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲15 +17.8%
3 L Layne's Chicken Fingers logo Layne's Chicken Fingers ▲19 +16.8%
4 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲3 +15.8%
5 G Great American Cookies logo Great American Cookies ▲13 +15.4%
6 B Burger Boy logo Burger Boy - +14.8%
7 S Stars Drive In logo Stars Drive In ▲15 +14.6%
8 E Einstein Bros. Bagels logo Einstein Bros. Bagels ▲15 +14.4%
9 B Black Bear Diner logo Black Bear Diner ▲6 +14.3%
10 Y Yard House logo Yard House ▲11 +14.1%
11 P Palenque Grill ▲14 +13.5%
12 W Whiskey Cake Kitchen & Bar ▲11 +13.5%
13 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲5 +11.6%
14 P Pluckers Wing Bar logo Pluckers Wing Bar ▲8 +11.3%
15 S Smoothie King logo Smoothie King ▲7 +11.1%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 37,587 tracked store locations in Texas, colored by category.

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