Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 436 stores from 25 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in North Carolina. Taco Mama grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Qdoba and Chipotle Mexican Grill.

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
436
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 Mama and Qdoba sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Taco Mama logo Taco Mama - +18.1%
2 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba - +12.8%
3 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +10.1%
4 B Burrito Shak - +9.5%
5 T Tacos 4 Life logo Tacos 4 Life - +9.3%
6 B Barberitos logo Barberitos ▲2 +0.6%
7 M Moe's Southwest Grill logo Moe's Southwest Grill - -2.6%
8 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -6.4%
9 T Tijuana Flats logo Tijuana Flats - -9.2%
10 D Dank Burrito logo Dank Burrito ▼1 -38.9%
11 W White Duck Taco Shop logo White Duck Taco Shop ▼1 -39.9%
  • Taco Bell
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Moe's Southwest Grill
  • Burrito Shak
  • Qdoba
  • Salsarita's Fresh Mexican Grill
  • Tacos 4 Life
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

436 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Taco Bell (186)
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (110)
  • Moe's Southwest Grill (54)
  • Burrito Shak (15)
  • Qdoba (17)
  • Salsarita's Fresh Mexican Grill (12)
  • Tacos 4 Life (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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