Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in the United States

Iceflower tracks 16,525 stores from 168 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in the United States. 3 Pepper Burrito Co grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Poppo's Taqueria and Cabo Bob's.

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
168
Tracked stores
16,525
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. 3 Pepper Burrito Co and Poppo's Taqueria sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 3 3 Pepper Burrito Co ▲6 +19.1%
2 P Poppo's Taqueria ▲7 +18.9%
3 C Cabo Bob's logo Cabo Bob's ▲5 +18.1%
4 D Dos Toros Taqueria logo Dos Toros Taqueria ▲5 +18.0%
5 D DosBros logo DosBros ▲5 +16.7%
6 T Taco Bus logo Taco Bus ▲11 +16.5%
7 T Taco Mama logo Taco Mama ▲2 +16.3%
8 D Don Juan Mex Grill ▲3 +15.8%
9 T Tasty Tacos ▲5 +15.1%
10 T Taco Express ▲5 +14.5%
11 T Taco Bandido ▲6 +14.4%
12 S Super Taqueria ▲9 +14.4%
13 B Blue Burro ▲4 +14.4%
14 T Taco Burrito King ▲2 +14.3%
15 B Burrito Brothers ▲7 +13.8%
  • Taco Bell
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Qdoba
  • Moe's Southwest Grill
  • Del Taco
  • El Pollo Loco
  • Cafe Rio Mexican Grill
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

16,525 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Taco Bell (6,098)
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (3,856)
  • Qdoba (818)
  • Moe's Southwest Grill (633)
  • Del Taco (634)
  • El Pollo Loco (512)
  • Cafe Rio Mexican Grill (165)
  • Other tracked chains

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