Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI

Iceflower tracks 1,279 stores from 524 food & drink chains in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. Texas Roadhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Caribou Coffee and Dairy Queen.

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
524
Tracked stores
1,279
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. Texas Roadhouse and Caribou Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲2 +16.2%
2 C Caribou Coffee logo Caribou Coffee ▲2 +15.8%
3 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲2 +15.7%
4 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲4 +13.6%
5 C Cafe Zupas logo Cafe Zupas ▲2 +12.0%
6 C Culver's logo Culver's ▼1 +10.4%
7 Y yum! Kitchen and Bakery ▲1 +10.3%
8 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba - +9.2%
9 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - +9.0%
10 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - +8.9%
11 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +7.5%
12 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▼1 +7.0%
13 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs - +6.6%
14 H Hope Breakfast Bar - +6.5%
15 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +6.4%

Store footprint

Store map

1,279 tracked store locations in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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