Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX

Iceflower tracks 935 stores from 720 food & drink chains in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX. Dona Carmen's Restaurant grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McDonald's and Chick-fil-A.

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
720
Tracked stores
935
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. Dona Carmen's Restaurant and McDonald's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Dona Carmen's Restaurant - +11.5%
2 McDonald's ▲1 +6.3%
3 Chick-fil-A - +6.0%
4 Panda Express ▲2 +5.4%
5 Luby's ▲2 +1.9%
6 Burger King ▲2 +0.6%
7 Yukis - -0.7%
8 Ceviche Ceviche - -2.1%
9 Whataburger ▼1 -3.1%
10 Domino's Pizza ▼1 -3.8%
11 Dairy Queen - -4.3%
12 Wendy's ▲1 -4.8%
13 Stars Drive In - -6.6%
14 Wingstop - -7.5%
15 Subway ▲1 -7.7%

Store footprint

Store map

935 tracked store locations in Brownsville-Harlingen, TX, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 66 of the 935 stores (7%); 643 of the 720 tracked chains have a single store here. 21% of the tracked food & drink stores here are Mexican restaurants & taquerias, against 12% across Texas.

Top tracked chains by store count

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