Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 536 stores from 25 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in Illinois. Taco Burrito King grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Burrito Parrilla Mexicana and El Famous Burrito.

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
25
Tracked stores
536
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. Taco Burrito King and Burrito Parrilla Mexicana sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Taco Burrito King - +19.1%
2 B Burrito Parrilla Mexicana logo Burrito Parrilla Mexicana - +8.1%
3 E El Famous Burrito - +6.8%
4 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +3.7%
5 T Taco John's logo Taco John's ▲1 +2.2%
6 M Moe's Southwest Grill logo Moe's Southwest Grill - +0.9%
7 T Taco Pros logo Taco Pros - -1.5%
8 D DosBros logo DosBros - -2.8%
9 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -4.3%
10 C Cilantro Taco Grill logo Cilantro Taco Grill ▼1 -14.1%
11 B Burrito King - -15.2%
12 G Guzman y Gomez logo Guzman y Gomez - -28.9%
  • Taco Bell
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Qdoba
  • Burrito Parrilla Mexicana
  • Taco Burrito King
  • Taco John's
  • Cilantro Taco Grill
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

536 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Taco Bell (224)
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (183)
  • Qdoba (23)
  • Burrito Parrilla Mexicana (10)
  • Taco Burrito King (7)
  • Taco John's (14)
  • Cilantro Taco Grill (15)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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