The Most Popular Chain Restaurant In Every State During Coronavirus

Although coronavirus has changed a lot about how Americans eat, people are still ordering food from their favorite restaurants. While the industry has taken a major financial blow, fast food is still a favorite with Sonic Drive-In as the No. 1 choice thanks to its 1950s-style carhop business model. What about those non-fast food chains?

Marketing insight company Top Data analyzed publicly available cell phone location data to determine which restaurants were performing the best from mid-March onward during the coronavirus pandemic. Alaska and Hawaii were omitted due to a lack of sufficient data. Here's the top choice in your state.

If you haven't mastered how to cook a steak perfectly every time, you could just get one at Texas Roadhouse, Arizona's favorite chain.

Everyone is making their own bread these days, but nothing compares to the breadsticks at Olive Garden, California's favorite chain.

Connecticut loves the New York Jets. It also loves Texas Roadhouse.

No wonder Florida likes Outback Steakhouse so much. It's one of the best casual steakhouse chains in America.

Idaho's favorite football team is the Seattle Seahawks, and its preferred chain restaurant is Applebee's.

Indiana, AKA the Hoosier State, adores Olive Garden.

Olive Garden may sound like a botanical oasis in Italy, but it is simply Kansas' favorite chain restaurant.

Louisiana takes special interest in labrador retrievers and thinks Olive Garden is doggone good.

Maryland, which has some of the weirdest laws in America, enjoys Texas Roadhouse.

Did you know that Lake Michigan has its own Bermuda Triangle? Anyway, this state likes Texas Roadhouse.

Mississippi is elated by iconic breakfast foods from Waffle House.

The top natural wonder in Montana is Gates of the Mountains, and some might say the top unnatural wonder is Applebee's.

Nevada has out-of-this-world landscapes and citizens who adore Applebee's.

While you're at the coolest old-school boardwalk, the people of New Jersey are at Applebee's.

New York has some of the best apple orchards in America, and its favorite chain restaurant is Applebee's.

North Dakota, one of the happiest states in America, is all-in for Olive Garden.

For a roadside attraction you need to see to believe, head to The Blue Whale in Oklahoma. For a meal from the state's favorite chain, head to Chili's.

The city of Philly is an underrated tourist destination, but local Pennsylvanians have their eyes on Texas Roadhouse.

When the people of South Carolina want a top-notch sandwich, they go to Tattooed Moose. When they want a meal from a chain restaurant, they go to Chili's.

When Tennesseeans want a nice American-Italian meal of soup, salad, breadsticks and unlimited pasta, they go to Olive Garden.

Utah, which consumes the most Jell-O per capita in the country, is sweet on Denny's.

Virginia has a high percentage of six-figure households and citizens who love Texas Roadhouse.

In West Virginia, one of the easiest places to social distance, people are huge fans of Olive Garden.

Wyoming loves Denny's. The diner-style breakfast joint, which was originally called Danny's Donuts, came to be in 1953. Standing the test of time is certainly something to brag about, but all chains aside, these mom-and-pop spots are the greatest old-school restaurants in America.

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