Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Albuquerque, NM

Iceflower tracks 2,246 stores from 1,321 food & drink chains in Albuquerque, NM. Taco Cabana grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burritos Alinstante and Tropical Smoothie Cafe.

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
1,321
Tracked stores
2,246
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked food & drink 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. Taco Cabana and Burritos Alinstante sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Taco Cabana logo Taco Cabana ▲4 +19.6%
2 B Burritos Alinstante ▲7 +19.3%
3 T Tropical Smoothie Cafe logo Tropical Smoothie Cafe ▲1 +18.8%
4 I IHOP logo IHOP ▲4 +16.5%
5 K Keva Juice ▲3 +15.7%
6 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +15.4%
7 B Burrito Express ▲2 +15.2%
8 P Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen logo Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen ▲2 +14.1%
9 F Firehouse Subs logo Firehouse Subs ▲7 +13.4%
10 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲2 +12.3%
11 B Boba Tea Company logo Boba Tea Company ▲5 +11.4%
12 A Arby's logo Arby's ▲3 +11.1%
13 T Twisters Burgers and Burritos logo Twisters Burgers and Burritos ▲3 +10.3%
14 W Whataburger logo Whataburger ▲1 +10.0%
15 F Fuddruckers logo Fuddruckers ▲6 +9.7%

Store footprint

Store map

2,246 tracked store locations in Albuquerque, NM, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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