Trends · data through August 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 315 stores from 200 restaurants chains in Minneapolis-St. Paul-Bloomington, MN-WI. Texas Roadhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cafe Zupas and yum! Kitchen and Bakery.

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
200
Tracked stores
315
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked 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. Texas Roadhouse and Cafe Zupas sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲1 +14.9%
2 C Cafe Zupas logo Cafe Zupas ▲1 +10.8%
3 Y yum! Kitchen and Bakery ▲1 +9.0%
4 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - +7.8%
5 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden ▼1 +7.7%
6 H Hope Breakfast Bar - +5.3%
7 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +5.2%
8 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers ▼1 -2.6%
9 W Willy McCoy's - -6.0%
10 L Leeann Chin logo Leeann Chin ▼1 -24.8%
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Olive Garden
  • Rainforest Cafe
  • Cowboy Jacks
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Dave & Buster's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (64)
  • Texas Roadhouse (4)
  • Olive Garden (8)
  • Rainforest Cafe (1)
  • Cowboy Jacks (3)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (5)
  • Dave & Buster's (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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