Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC

Iceflower tracks 124 stores from 11 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. Chipotle Mexican Grill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Tacos 4 Life and Moe's Southwest Grill.

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
11
Tracked stores
124
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Mexican fast food & fast casual 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. Chipotle Mexican Grill and Tacos 4 Life sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +10.1%
2 T Tacos 4 Life logo Tacos 4 Life - +6.0%
3 M Moe's Southwest Grill logo Moe's Southwest Grill - +0.3%
4 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -8.7%
5 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba - -11.7%
  • Taco Bell
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Moe's Southwest Grill
  • Tacos 4 Life
  • Salsarita's Fresh Mexican Grill
  • Qdoba
  • Taco Mama
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

124 tracked store locations in Charlotte-Concord-Gastonia, NC-SC. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Taco Bell (44)
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (35)
  • Moe's Southwest Grill (18)
  • Tacos 4 Life (3)
  • Salsarita's Fresh Mexican Grill (8)
  • Qdoba (11)
  • Taco Mama (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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