Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Texas

Iceflower tracks 67,917 stores from 34,299 food & drink chains in Texas. Chiloso Mexican Bistro grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Haywire and Black Bear Diner.

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
34,299
Tracked stores
67,917
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. Chiloso Mexican Bistro and Haywire sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Chiloso Mexican Bistro ▲2 +18.6%
2 Haywire ▲19 +18.1%
3 Black Bear Diner ▲9 +15.3%
4 Hopdoddy Burger Bar ▲7 +14.9%
5 Black Rock Coffee Bar ▲11 +13.8%
6 Einstein Bros. Bagels ▲12 +13.8%
7 Palenque Grill ▲17 +12.7%
8 Braum's ▲4 +12.7%
9 Menchie's Frozen Yogurt ▲9 +12.1%
10 Hard Eight BBQ ▲7 +12.0%
11 Taco Palenque ▲5 +11.6%
12 Zaxby's ▲12 +11.5%
13 Topgolf ▲8 +11.0%
14 Culver's ▲10 +10.7%
15 Dutch Bros Coffee ▲1 +10.3%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 67,917 tracked store locations in Texas, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 5,510 of the 67,917 stores (8%); 30,172 of the 34,299 tracked chains have a single store here. 12% of the tracked food & drink stores here are Mexican restaurants & taquerias, against 6% across the United States.

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