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. Mallards and Smack Shack sit in the high-growth half.
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Chain
YoY growth
| Rank | Chain | Rank movement | YoY growth |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mallards | ▲9 | +18.3% |
| 2 | Smack Shack | ▲11 | +17.5% |
| 3 | Panda Express | ▲3 | +15.9% |
| 4 | Burger King | ▲2 | +13.4% |
| 5 | Tono Pizzeria + Cheesesteaks | ▲1 | +13.1% |
| 6 | Hope Breakfast Bar | ▲4 | +11.3% |
| 7 | Domino's Pizza | - | +10.9% |
| 8 | Burger Dive | ▲11 | +10.8% |
| 9 | Old Southern BBQ | - | +10.4% |
| 10 | My Burger | ▲6 | +10.3% |
| 11 | Southern Social | ▲10 | +10.1% |
| 12 | Pizza Lucé | ▲2 | +9.8% |
| 13 | Chili's Grill & Bar | - | +9.6% |
| 14 | Nothing Bundt Cakes | ▲5 | +9.1% |
| 15 | Hazelwood Food And Drink Woodbury | ▲1 | +9.0% |
- Bars, Pubs & Breweries
- Casual Dining
- Other restaurants
- Sandwich & Sub Shops
- Coffee Chains
- Cafes & Bakery-Cafes
- Burger Chains
- Other categories
Store footprint
Store map
6,457 tracked store locations in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 825 of the 6,457 stores (13%); 3,277 of the 3,649 tracked chains have a single store here.
- Bars, Pubs & Breweries (635)
- Casual Dining (587)
- Other restaurants (533)
- Sandwich & Sub Shops (458)
- Coffee Chains (453)
- Cafes & Bakery-Cafes (428)
- Burger Chains (423)
- Other categories
Top tracked chains by store count
- 1 Caribou Coffee 223
- 2 Subway 197
- 3 Starbucks 156
- 4 McDonald's 143
- 5 Dairy Queen 106
- 6 Domino's Pizza 100
- 7 Jimmy John's 91
- 8 Chipotle Mexican Grill 79
- 9 Taco Bell 72
- 10 Burger King 60
- 11 Papa Murphy's 57
- 12 Wendy's 52
- 13 Arby's 48
- 14 Culver's 44
- 15 Jersey Mike's Subs 40
- 16 Leeann Chin 39
- 17 Bruegger's Bagels 37
- 18 Papa John's Pizza 35
- 19 Pizza Hut 33
- 20 Perkins American Food Co. 31
- 21 Panera Bread 30
- 22 Taco John's 27
- 23 Dunkin' 26
- 24 Applebee's Grill + Bar 26
- 25 Buffalo Wild Wings 25
- 26 Little Caesars 22
- 27 Chick-fil-A 22
- 28 Five Guys 21
- 29 Wingstop 21
- 30 Nautical Bowls 20
- 31 Panda Express 20
- 32 Potbelly Sandwich Shop 19
- 33 Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen 19
- 34 KFC 18
- 35 Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers 16
- 36 Denny's 15
- 37 Qdoba 15
- 38 White Castle 15
- 39 Scooter's Coffee 13
- 40 Crisp & Green 13
- 41 Pizza Man 13
- 42 Red's Savoy Pizza 12
- 43 Carbone's Pizzeria 12
- 44 Davanni's Pizza and Hot Hoagies 11
- 45 Pizza Ranch 11
- 46 Nothing Bundt Cakes 11
- 47 Tono Pizzeria + Cheesesteaks 10
- 48 Auntie Anne's 10
- 49 TGI Fridays 9
- 50 Famous Dave's 9
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