Trends · data through July 2026

Buffet Restaurants in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 54 stores from 40 buffet restaurants chains in the United Kingdom. JRC Global Buffet grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Spoon World Buffet and Cosmo.

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
40
Tracked stores
54
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked buffet restaurants 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. JRC Global Buffet and Spoon World Buffet sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J JRC Global Buffet - +1.0%
2 S Spoon World Buffet - -7.4%
3 C Cosmo - -60.6%
  • JRC Global Buffet
  • Hot World Cuisine
  • Spoon World Buffet
  • Tops Buffet Restaurant
  • Booffi Glasgow Fort
  • Ming Moon Chinese Restaurant & Bar
  • Nines Global Buffet
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

54 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • JRC Global Buffet (6)
  • Hot World Cuisine (1)
  • Spoon World Buffet (3)
  • Tops Buffet Restaurant (1)
  • Booffi Glasgow Fort (1)
  • Ming Moon Chinese Restaurant & Bar (1)
  • Nines Global Buffet (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 C Cosmo 7
  • 2 J JRC Global Buffet 6
  • 3 S Spoon World Buffet 3
  • 4 N Nines Global Buffet logo Nines Global Buffet 2
  • 5 E East Orient 1
  • 6 A Aroma Buffet 1
  • 7 I Ibrahimi Restaurant 1
  • 8 Z Ziryab Executive Buffet 1
  • 9 J JinZun Fareham 1
  • 10 B Buffet Time Restaurant 1
  • 11 R Red Leaf Global Buffet 1
  • 12 O Oxy Oriental 1
  • 13 B Buffet City 1
  • 14 Z Za Za Bazaar 1
  • 15 S Shanghai Shanghai 1
  • 16 M Mr. Basrai's World Cuisines 1
  • 17 L Legend Buffet 1
  • 18 K Kings Buffet 1
  • 19 A Asli Zaiqa 1
  • 20 V Vesta Global Buffet 1
  • 21 R Royal Buffet 1
  • 22 B Bon Pan Asian Merry Hill 1
  • 23 H Hot World Cuisine 1
  • 24 T Tops Buffet Restaurant 1
  • 25 B Booffi Glasgow Fort 1
  • 26 M Ming Moon Chinese Restaurant & Bar 1
  • 27 W W2 World Buffet 1
  • 28 S Shahi Masala 1
  • 29 Z Zauq Buffet 1
  • 30 M Mandarin Buffet 1
  • 31 S Saphari 1
  • 32 S Song's Buffet 1
  • 33 B Buffet King 1
  • 34 M Marble Global Buffet 1
  • 35 S Spoon World Buffet & Bar 1
  • 36 R Royal Shalimar 1
  • 37 H Hong Buffet 1
  • 38 J Jimmy Spice's 1
  • 39 Y Young Cheng Buffet 1
  • 40 B Booffi 1

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