# Food & Dining search demand in Greenville THE SEARCH LEDGER · GREENVILLE, SOUTH CAROLINA · FOOD & DINING Every month Greenville types 233,910 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them. BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/greenville/food-dining#colophon) 252 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Greenville metro, Sep 8, 2026 233,910 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Greenville metro, Sep 8, 2026 $139K MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $0.83 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Greenville metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Greenville searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in JUL and lowest in JAN. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 77, February 81, March 92, April 89, May 92, June 90, July 100, August 97, September 90, October 94, November 93, December 93. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Greenville — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Greenville pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 252 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“up on the rooftop greenville sc”** at $1.57. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 110,000 | $0.51 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | greenville restaurants | 12,100 | $0.72 | 13 | commercial | | 3 | breakfast near me | 12,100 | $0.33 | 23 | transactional | | 4 | coffee shops near me | 9,900 | $0.36 | 0 | transactional | | 5 | pizza near me | 9,900 | $1.18 | 12 | transactional | | 6 | dining downtown greenville sc | 6,600 | $0.53 | 9 | commercial | | 7 | coffee underground greenville | 6,600 | $1.08 | | branded | | 8 | methodical coffee greenville sc | 6,600 | $0.27 | | branded | | 9 | bars near me | 6,600 | $0.30 | 0 | transactional | | 10 | sassafras bistro greenville sc | 3,600 | $0.21 | | branded | | 11 | best restaurants in greenville | 2,900 | $0.63 | 3 | commercial | | 12 | breakfast in greenville sc | 2,400 | $0.32 | 0 | commercial | | 13 | greenville brunch | 1,900 | $0.60 | 5 | commercial | | 14 | greenville food | 1,600 | $1.37 | 18 | commercial | | 15 | up on the rooftop greenville sc | 1,600 | $1.57 | | branded | | 16 | greenville coffee shop | 1,300 | $0.42 | 4 | commercial | | 17 | greenville italian restaurant | 1,300 | $0.43 | 11 | commercial | | 18 | augusta grill greenville sc | 1,300 | $0.80 | | branded | | 19 | greenville mexican restaurants | 1,000 | $0.72 | 14 | commercial | | 20 | greenville sushi | 880 | $0.30 | 4 | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Greenville metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored. ## Who owns the Greenville food & dining results Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one. restaurants near me 110,000/mo · $0.51 CPC · difficulty 7 MAP PACK - 1 STIR 4.8★ 3,300 - 2 Between the Trees 4.4★ 791 - 3 UP on the Roof 4.3★ 4,700 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 visitgreenvillesc.com - 2 tripadvisor.com - 3 forkandplough.com LOCAL - 4 yelp.com - 5 ubereats.com pizza near me 9,900/mo · $1.18 CPC · difficulty 12 MAP PACK - 1 Brick Oven Pizzeria 4.5★ 1,400 - 2 Fuego Pizza Company 4.8★ 241 - 3 Mystic Pizza 5★ 33 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 blazepizza.com - 2 yelp.com - 3 gallagherspizza.com - 4 leucadiapizza.com - 5 pizzapizazz.net Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Greenville metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track. ## The food & dining businesses competing in Greenville The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are. | RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #1 | Willy Taco - Feed & Seed | 4.6 ★ | 5,913 | Restaurant | YES | | #2 | Willy Taco - Feed & Seed | 4.6 ★ | 5,913 | Restaurant | YES | | #3 | Stax Omega Diner | 4.5 ★ | 5,626 | Breakfast | YES | | #4 | Stax Omega Diner | 4.5 ★ | 5,626 | Breakfast | YES | | #5 | Cracker Barrel Old Country Store | 4.4 ★ | 5,294 | American | YES | | #6 | UP on the Roof | 4.3 ★ | 4,697 | American | YES | | #7 | UP on the Roof | 4.3 ★ | 4,697 | American | YES | | #8 | UP on the Roof | 4.3 ★ | 4,697 | American | YES | | #9 | Olive Garden Italian Restaurant | 4.2 ★ | 4,527 | Italian | YES | | #10 | Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar | 4.4 ★ | 4,486 | American | YES | | #11 | Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar | 4.4 ★ | 4,486 | American | YES | | #12 | Tupelo Honey Southern Kitchen & Bar | 4.4 ★ | 4,486 | American | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Greenville metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim. ## Food & Dining brands Greenville searches by name Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for. coffee underground greenville 6,600/mo methodical coffee greenville sc 6,600/mo sassafras bistro greenville sc 3,600/mo up on the rooftop greenville sc 1,600/mo augusta grill greenville sc 1,300/mo jason's deli greenville menu 320/mo groucho's deli greenville menu 70/mo eggs up grill greenville 70/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Greenville metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Greenville asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Greenville food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What are some must-eat restaurants in Greenville, SC? What are some hidden gem restaurants in Greenville, SC? What is the best place to have lunch in Greenville, SC? What food is Greenville, SC known for? What is the 2 hour rule for pizza? Where's the best place to get a pizza? Who has the best pizza in Mechanicsville, VA? What is the best pizza in Port St. Lucie? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Greenville metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here. ## Rank for these searches Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today. [SCAN YOUR SITE FREE](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan) [Restaurant SEO](https://seobandwagon.com/restaurant-seo) ## More Greenville search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. [Home Services · 7K searches/mo](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/greenville/home-services)[Entertainment · 6K searches/mo](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/greenville/entertainment) FOOD & DINING IN OTHER METROS [Charlotte](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/charlotte/food-dining) [Atlanta](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/atlanta/food-dining) [Charleston](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/charleston/food-dining) [Tacoma](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/tacoma/food-dining) [← All Greenville market data](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/greenville) · [Every metro we track](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo#cities) HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE Every figure is collected, not estimated. Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled. Greenville, South Carolina · Food & Dining · 252 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026 Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 252 food & dining keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. If a number here is wrong, [tell us](https://seobandwagon.com/contact). --- Canonical page: https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/greenville/food-dining Every metro: https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo#cities Data reuse license: https://seobandwagon.com/data-license Site overview for agents: https://seobandwagon.com/llms.txt · API docs: https://seobandwagon.com/docs/api