Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Iceflower tracks 413 stores from 33 fast food restaurants chains in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. Dairy Queen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Shake Shack and Culver'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: 33
Tracked stores: 413
Consumer panel: 130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked fast food restaurants 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. Dairy Queen and Shake Shack sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth

Rank	Chain	Rank movement	YoY growth
1	D Dairy Queen	▲1	+10.7%
2	S Shake Shack	-	+8.7%
3	C Culver's	-	+5.6%
4	Q Qdoba	-	+4.4%
5	P Panda Express	-	+2.8%
6	C Chick-fil-A	-	+2.3%
7	A A&W Restaurant	-	+1.3%
8	T Taco Bell	-	+1.0%
9	M McDonald's	-	+0.7%
10	F Five Guys	-	-0.4%
11	P Portillo's	-	-1.2%
12	K KFC	-	-3.4%
13	B Burger King	▼1	-4.0%
14	W Wendy's	-	-4.7%
15	W White Castle	▲1	-6.0%

McDonald's
Chick-fil-A
Culver's
Taco Bell
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
Wendy's
Panda Express
Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

413 tracked store locations in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

McDonald's (112)
Chick-fil-A (21)
Culver's (42)
Taco Bell (51)
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (16)
Wendy's (32)
Panda Express (18)
Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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