Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL

Iceflower tracks 152 stores from 13 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL. Qdoba grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Taco Bus and Chipotle Mexican Grill.

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
13
Tracked stores
152
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Mexican fast food & fast casual 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. Qdoba and Taco Bus sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba - +18.9%
2 T Taco Bus logo Taco Bus - +14.4%
3 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +11.2%
4 B Bubbakoo's Burritos logo Bubbakoo's Burritos ▲1 -4.5%
5 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -5.1%
6 T Tijuana Flats logo Tijuana Flats - -12.0%
7 M Moe's Southwest Grill logo Moe's Southwest Grill - -18.1%
8 F Fuzzy's Taco Shop logo Fuzzy's Taco Shop ▼1 -78.4%
  • Taco Bell
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Tijuana Flats
  • Moe's Southwest Grill
  • Qdoba
  • Taco Bus
  • Poppo's Taqueria
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

152 tracked store locations in Tampa-St. Petersburg-Clearwater, FL. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Taco Bell (42)
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (39)
  • Tijuana Flats (23)
  • Moe's Southwest Grill (18)
  • Qdoba (5)
  • Taco Bus (13)
  • Poppo's Taqueria (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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