Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX

Iceflower tracks 1,904 stores from 1,256 food & drink chains in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX. Chipotle Mexican Grill grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Dunkin' and Firehouse Subs.

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
1,256
Tracked stores
1,904
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. Chipotle Mexican Grill and Dunkin' sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲6 +15.0%
2 Dunkin' ▲1 +14.6%
3 Firehouse Subs ▲1 +13.8%
4 Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲3 +12.8%
5 Starbucks ▲4 +12.4%
6 Dutch Bros Coffee ▲2 +10.2%
7 Taco Palenque - +9.5%
8 Gorditas Doña Lula ▲3 +9.5%
9 Burger King - +8.6%
10 La Reynera Bakery ▲1 +8.1%
11 LongHorn Steakhouse ▲2 +6.3%
12 Tortilleria Bertha - +5.8%
13 Chick-fil-A - +5.6%
14 Auntie Anne's - +4.1%
15 Church's Chicken - +2.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,904 tracked store locations in McAllen-Edinburg-Mission, TX, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 142 of the 1,904 stores (7%); 1,085 of the 1,256 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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