Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 1,716 stores from 618 food & drink chains in Minnesota. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Caribou Coffee and Texas Roadhouse.

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
618
Tracked stores
1,716
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. Panda Express and Caribou Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲1 +15.6%
2 C Caribou Coffee logo Caribou Coffee ▲1 +15.5%
3 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲1 +14.0%
4 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲3 +13.8%
5 C Cafe Zupas logo Cafe Zupas ▲1 +12.1%
6 C Culver's logo Culver's ▲1 +10.2%
7 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +9.7%
8 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲1 +9.3%
9 Y yum! Kitchen and Bakery ▲3 +8.7%
10 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - +8.7%
11 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲1 +7.1%
12 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲1 +6.3%
13 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' - +6.1%
14 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +5.1%
15 D Dairy Queen ▼1 +4.6%

Store footprint

Store map

1,716 tracked store locations in Minnesota, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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