Trends · data through August 2026

Restaurants in Minnesota

Iceflower tracks 380 stores from 241 restaurants chains in Minnesota. 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
241
Tracked stores
380
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 - +12.4%
2 C Cafe Zupas logo Cafe Zupas ▲1 +10.1%
3 Y yum! Kitchen and Bakery ▲2 +8.4%
4 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - +6.2%
5 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +5.1%
6 H Hope Breakfast Bar - +4.7%
7 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - +2.4%
8 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers ▼1 -3.2%
9 W Willy McCoy's - -6.6%
10 P Perkins American Food Co. logo Perkins American Food Co. ▼1 -9.7%
11 L Leeann Chin logo Leeann Chin ▼1 -25.3%
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Olive Garden
  • Rainforest Cafe
  • Cowboy Jacks
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

380 tracked store locations in Minnesota. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (74)
  • Texas Roadhouse (7)
  • Olive Garden (12)
  • Rainforest Cafe (1)
  • Cowboy Jacks (3)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (5)
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (8)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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