Trends · data through July 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Iceflower tracks 609 stores from 66 fast food restaurants chains in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Qdoba and Taco De Oro.

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
66
Tracked stores
609
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. Panda Express and Qdoba sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +9.6%
2 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba ▲2 +7.0%
3 T Taco De Oro ▲1 +4.9%
4 S Steak 'n Shake logo Steak 'n Shake - +4.9%
5 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A - +3.7%
6 C Culver's logo Culver's - +2.3%
7 S Salem's Fresh Eats ▲1 +1.6%
8 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +1.3%
9 D Dairy Queen ▲1 -0.4%
10 P Portillo's logo Portillo's ▲1 -0.4%
11 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▼1 -1.0%
12 B Burger King logo Burger King - -1.9%
13 H Hardee's logo Hardee's ▲2 -4.0%
14 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -4.2%
15 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▼1 -7.8%
  • McDonald's
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Taco Bell
  • Burger King
  • Culver's
  • Wendy's
  • KFC
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

609 tracked store locations in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (111)
  • Chick-fil-A (53)
  • Taco Bell (33)
  • Burger King (79)
  • Culver's (18)
  • Wendy's (62)
  • KFC (20)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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