Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 579 stores from 35 fast food restaurants chains in Minnesota. Qdoba grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Panda Express and Shake Shack.

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: 35
Tracked stores: 579
Consumer panel: 130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked fast food restaurants 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. Qdoba and Panda Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	Q Qdoba	-	+18.7%
2	P Panda Express	▲1	+9.7%
3	S Shake Shack	▲1	+8.0%
4	C Culver's	-	+4.6%
5	C Chick-fil-A	-	+4.1%
6	T Taco John's	-	+2.1%
7	T Taco Bell	-	+0.8%
8	M McDonald's	-	-0.3%
9	D Dairy Queen	▼1	-0.8%
10	P Portillo's	-	-1.5%
11	F Five Guys	-	-1.8%
12	B Burger King	-	-5.0%
13	W Wendy's	-	-6.0%
14	F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers	-	-6.7%
15	W White Castle	-	-6.8%

McDonald's
Chick-fil-A
Culver's
Taco Bell
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
Wendy's
Panda Express
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

579 tracked store locations in Minnesota. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

McDonald's (193)
Chick-fil-A (25)
Culver's (56)
Taco Bell (69)
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (16)
Wendy's (35)
Panda Express (19)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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