Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX

Iceflower tracks 18,662 stores from 9,494 food & drink chains in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX. Mexican Sugar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Flower Child and Cristina's Fine Mexican Restaurant.

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
9,494
Tracked stores
18,662
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. Mexican Sugar and Flower Child sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 M Mexican Sugar ▲16 +19.6%
2 F Flower Child logo Flower Child ▲14 +18.9%
3 C Cristina's Fine Mexican Restaurant logo Cristina's Fine Mexican Restaurant ▲15 +16.9%
4 A Auntie Anne's logo Auntie Anne's ▲14 +16.7%
5 K Kura Revolving Sushi Bar logo Kura Revolving Sushi Bar ▲9 +16.3%
6 E Eggsquisite Cafe ▲11 +15.6%
7 H Hard Eight BBQ logo Hard Eight BBQ ▲13 +14.2%
8 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲12 +12.9%
9 R Red Claws Crab Shack ▲9 +12.8%
10 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲3 +12.2%
11 B Braum's logo Braum's ▲5 +12.0%
12 L LongHorn Steakhouse logo LongHorn Steakhouse ▲6 +11.4%
13 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee ▲1 +11.3%
14 O Ojos Locos Sports Cantina logo Ojos Locos Sports Cantina ▲11 +10.4%
15 1 151 Coffee ▲6 +10.3%

Store footprint

Store map

18,662 tracked store locations in Dallas-Fort Worth-Arlington, TX, colored by category.

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