Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Tucson, AZ

Iceflower tracks 1,914 stores from 1,194 food & drink chains in Tucson, AZ. Whataburger grew fastest over the last year, ahead of El Guero Canelo and Firehouse Subs.

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
1,194
Tracked stores
1,914
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. Whataburger and El Guero Canelo sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Whataburger ▲4 +18.4%
2 El Guero Canelo ▲6 +17.4%
3 Firehouse Subs ▲2 +16.5%
4 Scented Leaf Tea House ▲2 +16.3%
5 Waffle House ▲4 +12.4%
6 In-N-Out Burger ▲3 +11.9%
7 Chick-fil-A ▲2 +11.1%
8 Subway ▲1 +9.5%
9 Einstein Bros. Bagels ▲4 +9.4%
10 Burger King ▲4 +9.4%
11 Chili's Grill & Bar - +8.1%
12 Texas Roadhouse ▲1 +7.3%
13 Village Inn ▲1 +7.2%
14 Dutch Bros Coffee ▼1 +6.6%
15 Baggin's Gourmet Sandwiches ▲4 +5.7%

Store footprint

Store map

1,914 tracked store locations in Tucson, AZ, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 226 of the 1,914 stores (12%); 1,064 of the 1,194 tracked chains have a single store here. 7% of the tracked food & drink stores here are sandwich & sub shops, against 5% across Arizona.

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