Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX

Iceflower tracks 169 stores from 14 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX. Chipotle Mexican Grill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of El Pollo Loco and Torchy's Tacos.

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
14
Tracked stores
169
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. Chipotle Mexican Grill and El Pollo Loco sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +3.7%
2 E El Pollo Loco logo El Pollo Loco - +2.8%
3 T Torchy's Tacos logo Torchy's Tacos ▲1 -0.1%
4 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -4.7%
5 F Freebirds World Burrito logo Freebirds World Burrito ▼1 -13.5%
6 T Taco Cabana logo Taco Cabana - -18.1%
  • Taco Bell
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Taco Palenque
  • Taco Cabana
  • Torchy's Tacos
  • Freebirds World Burrito
  • Cabo Bob's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

169 tracked store locations in San Antonio-New Braunfels, TX. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Taco Bell (61)
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (26)
  • Taco Palenque (8)
  • Taco Cabana (47)
  • Torchy's Tacos (7)
  • Freebirds World Burrito (7)
  • Cabo Bob's (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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