Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in Kentucky

Iceflower tracks 210 stores from 14 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in Kentucky. Chipotle Mexican Grill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Qdoba and Hot Head Burritos.

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
210
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 Qdoba sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +9.9%
2 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba - +5.5%
3 H Hot Head Burritos logo Hot Head Burritos ▲1 +4.1%
4 S Salsarita's Fresh Mexican Grill logo Salsarita's Fresh Mexican Grill ▼1 +1.2%
5 T Taco John's logo Taco John's - +0.9%
6 M Moe's Southwest Grill logo Moe's Southwest Grill - +0.1%
7 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -4.5%
  • Taco Bell
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Qdoba
  • Moe's Southwest Grill
  • Hot Head Burritos
  • Salsarita's Fresh Mexican Grill
  • Taco John's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

210 tracked store locations in Kentucky. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Taco Bell (102)
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (35)
  • Qdoba (32)
  • Moe's Southwest Grill (13)
  • Hot Head Burritos (5)
  • Salsarita's Fresh Mexican Grill (3)
  • Taco John's (11)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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