Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Maine

Iceflower tracks 3,659 stores from 2,788 food & drink chains in Maine. El Tequila Mexican Restaurant grew fastest over the last year, ahead of LongHorn Steakhouse and Aroma Joe's Coffee.

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
2,788
Tracked stores
3,659
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. El Tequila Mexican Restaurant and LongHorn Steakhouse sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 El Tequila Mexican Restaurant ▲7 +17.9%
2 LongHorn Steakhouse ▲2 +14.4%
3 Aroma Joe's Coffee - +14.0%
4 Burger King ▲1 +13.9%
5 Subway - +13.4%
6 Taco Bell - +13.2%
7 OTTO ▲5 +13.2%
8 Firehouse Subs ▲1 +10.9%
9 Harvest Moon Deli ▲1 +8.4%
10 Mister Bagel ▲1 +6.7%
11 Tim Hortons ▲2 +6.6%
12 Applebee's Grill + Bar - +6.3%
13 Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲1 +5.8%
14 Five Guys ▲1 +4.7%
15 Texas Roadhouse - +4.6%

Store footprint

Store map

3,659 tracked store locations in Maine, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 399 of the 3,659 stores (11%); 2,624 of the 2,788 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked food & drink stores here are seafood & Cajun, against 2% across the United States.

Top tracked chains by store count

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