Trends · data through September 2026

Airport & Travel Dining in the United States

Iceflower tracks 200 stores from 43 airport & travel dining chains in the United States. The Club Airport Lounges grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Connections Cafe and Tailwind.

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
43
Tracked stores
200
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked airport & travel dining 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 Club Airport Lounges and Connections Cafe sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Club Airport Lounges - +19.2%
2 C Connections Cafe - +16.9%
3 T Tailwind ▲1 +9.9%
4 C Connections logo Connections ▲1 +8.7%
5 C Ciao - +2.7%
6 T The Atrium ▲1 +2.1%
7 T The Kitchen - -1.0%
8 T The Bridge ▼1 -5.1%
9 S Stephanie's - -7.5%
10 K Koi Palace Express logo Koi Palace Express ▼1 -9.3%
11 U Urban Crave ▼1 -47.5%
  • The Kitchen
  • Vino Volo
  • PGA Tour Grill
  • Tailwind
  • Urban Crave
  • Ember
  • Connections
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

200 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • The Kitchen (53)
  • Vino Volo (17)
  • PGA Tour Grill (8)
  • Tailwind (3)
  • Urban Crave (4)
  • Ember (6)
  • Connections (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 T The Kitchen 53
  • 2 T The Bridge 31
  • 3 V Vino Volo logo Vino Volo 17
  • 4 T The Atrium 10
  • 5 S Stephanie's 9
  • 6 P PGA Tour Grill logo PGA Tour Grill 8
  • 7 E Ember 6
  • 8 C Connections logo Connections 5
  • 9 C Connections Cafe 5
  • 10 C Ciao 5
  • 11 U Urban Crave 4
  • 12 T The Club Airport Lounges 4
  • 13 D Delta Sky Club logo Delta Sky Club 4
  • 14 K Koi Palace Express logo Koi Palace Express 3
  • 15 T Tailwind 3
  • 16 W Woodward 2
  • 17 B British Airways logo British Airways 2
  • 18 G Gameway logo Gameway 2
  • 19 P Plaza Premium Lounge 2
  • 20 Z Zona Cocina 2
  • 21 J JFK Business Lounge 1
  • 22 N Newport News /Williamsburg USO 1
  • 23 A American Express Centurion Lounge 1
  • 24 W Wine Bar at PSP 1
  • 25 T The Centurion Lounge 1
  • 26 T The Club Pittsburgh logo The Club Pittsburgh 1
  • 27 P PS LAX 1
  • 28 P Primeclass Lounge 1
  • 29 S Shoemaker Military Lounge 1
  • 30 K KitTea Cat Cafe 1
  • 31 M Merit Air 1
  • 32 A Airspace Lounge-san 1
  • 33 T The Club BUF 1
  • 34 R Riverside Air Service 1
  • 35 L Los Angeles International Lounge 1
  • 36 C Copa Airlines logo Copa Airlines 1
  • 37 T The Club SEA 1
  • 38 A Air France Lounge logo Air France Lounge 1
  • 39 A Alaska Airlines Lounge logo Alaska Airlines Lounge 1
  • 40 T The Pasty Shop 1
  • 41 B Berkshire Farms Market 1
  • 42 C Chicken and Beer 1
  • 43 O Obrycki's 1

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