Trends · data through June 2026

Bars in the United States

Iceflower tracks 15,413 stores from 12,942 bars chains in the United States. The Hangar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Tavern and Craft House Pizza.

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
12,942
Tracked stores
15,413
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked bars 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. The Hangar and The Tavern sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Hangar ▲11 +19.3%
2 T The Tavern ▲13 +18.5%
3 C Craft House Pizza logo Craft House Pizza ▲9 +17.7%
4 S Station 4 ▲8 +16.0%
5 T Tom's Watch Bar ▲1 +15.0%
6 M Melrose ▲6 +12.4%
7 O Ojos Locos Sports Cantina logo Ojos Locos Sports Cantina ▲2 +11.9%
8 L Lucy's ▲21 +11.8%
9 J Jake's ▲4 +10.3%
10 H HopCat logo HopCat ▲12 +10.3%
11 S Silver Dollar ▲1 +10.1%
12 M Mid Atlantic Seafood ▲3 +9.8%
13 T The Well ▲9 +9.4%
14 A Art & Jake's Sports Bar & Grill ▲5 +7.1%
15 J Junior's ▲3 +7.0%
  • The Beach Bar at Hard Rock
  • Wings Etc.
  • Golden Nugget
  • Ojos Locos Sports Cantina
  • Junior's
  • Pins Mechanical Co.
  • The Brass Tap
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

15,413 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • The Beach Bar at Hard Rock (1)
  • Wings Etc. (73)
  • Golden Nugget (8)
  • Ojos Locos Sports Cantina (32)
  • Junior's (5)
  • Pins Mechanical Co. (11)
  • The Brass Tap (47)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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