Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Iceflower tracks 1,260 stores from 523 food & drink chains in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. Texas Roadhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Panda Express and Caribou Coffee.

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
523
Tracked stores
1,260
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. Texas Roadhouse and Panda Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲1 +16.3%
2 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +16.1%
3 C Caribou Coffee logo Caribou Coffee ▲1 +15.8%
4 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲3 +14.1%
5 C Cafe Zupas logo Cafe Zupas ▲2 +12.4%
6 C Culver's logo Culver's ▼1 +11.1%
7 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden ▲1 +9.8%
8 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba - +9.3%
9 Y yum! Kitchen and Bakery ▲1 +9.0%
10 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - +8.7%
11 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +6.8%
12 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +6.0%
13 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +5.9%
14 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +5.6%
15 D Dairy Queen - +5.3%

Store footprint

Store map

1,260 tracked store locations in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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