Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ

Iceflower tracks 10,393 stores from 5,274 food & drink chains in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ. The Taco Spot grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Lin's Grand Buffet and Cornish Pasty Co.

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
5,274
Tracked stores
10,393
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. The Taco Spot and Lin's Grand Buffet sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 The Taco Spot ▲11 +19.3%
2 Lin's Grand Buffet ▲21 +19.0%
3 Cornish Pasty Co ▲21 +18.5%
4 Black Rock Coffee Bar ▲2 +17.2%
5 Culver's ▲7 +16.5%
6 Shake Shack ▲10 +15.7%
7 Handel's Homemade Ice Cream ▲20 +14.1%
8 Dulceria la Bonita Goodyear ▲5 +13.9%
9 Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲16 +13.0%
10 Waffle House ▲9 +12.7%
11 Black Angus Steakhouse ▲5 +12.7%
12 Slim Chickens ▲19 +12.6%
13 In-N-Out Burger ▲2 +12.0%
14 Over Easy ▲6 +11.7%
15 Zoyo Neighborhood Yogurt ▲1 +10.4%

Store footprint

Store map

10,393 tracked store locations in Phoenix-Mesa-Chandler, AZ, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 1,063 of the 10,393 stores (10%); 4,525 of the 5,274 tracked chains have a single store here.

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