Take the Olive Garden aside, a new favorite food chain in the US.
According to a new study by Insights Company Technomic, Olive Garden has been replaced by Texas Roadhouse as the country’s top casual restaurant after seven years of reign.
The data focused on the sale of systemwide from the top 500 restaurant chains and found that the steickhouse franchise saw an increase of 14.7 percent within the previous year, reaching $ 5.5 billion.
Texas Roadhouse also opened 26 new restaurants across the country, which hit 4.1 percent in its overall systemwide sales.
According to the 2024 sales report on the fourth quarter of the franchise, the weekly sales in Texas Rourdhouse outlets last year were $ 155,285 last year.
Based on the latest report on the Texas Roadhouse website, 722 locations, including 10, include a handful of other countries.
As Restaurant businessThe Kentki -based joint has seen a steady increase in its customer traffic in view of the Kovid -19 epidemic due to the increasing demand for steak. Texas Roadhouse has also succeeded in keeping food and drinking prices below inflation. On the other hand, Olive Garden has not done a hit on its low -income consumers.
Last year, despite connecting 15 new American places and bringing back its endless pasta promotion, the systemwide sales of Olive Garden increased only 0.8 percent, which was $ 5.2 billion from its 920 restaurants.
Meanwhile, in 2023, Italian food suffrage saw an increase of 8.8 percent in sales.
Chile, Texas -based grill and bar chain, came at number three on the top ten list of technomicic. By March 2025, with 1,214 domestic places, Chile saw a 15 percent increase in systemwide sales.
Number four rank, Applebee saw a decline of 5.8 percent in sales, in total $ 4.1 billion.
Buffalo wild wings came at number five with a total of $ 4.05 billion. Last year in US sales.
Then, Longhorn Stechouse, Olive Garden sister -in -law, defeated the outback steakhouse with an increase in sales of 2024. Chen also opened 14 new restaurants in 2024.
The outback steakhouse took a 3.9 percent dip in the systemwide sales, but still finished number seven.
The Cheesecake factory increased by 2.6 percent to eighth and its total was $ 2.7 billion for sales of 2024.
Meanwhile, the Red Lobster saw a 22.7 percent decrease in sales and Red Robin saw a loss of 4.2 percent.
Red Lobster took out of bankruptcy in September 2024 after filing chapter 11 four months ago. At that time, the seafood chain reported that its filing was to simplify its operations, simplify the restaurant and chase the sale.
The franchise was forced to close several American places due to its endless seafood deals, such as shrimp, permanent menu items.
