Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV

Iceflower tracks 342 stores from 17 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. Qdoba grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chipotle Mexican Grill and Taco Bar.

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
17
Tracked stores
342
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 Chipotle Mexican Grill sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba - +18.2%
2 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +6.4%
3 T Taco Bar - +5.9%
4 D District Taco logo District Taco - -2.2%
5 C Cafe Rio Mexican Grill logo Cafe Rio Mexican Grill - -5.4%
6 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -8.4%
7 M Moe's Southwest Grill logo Moe's Southwest Grill ▲1 -10.1%
8 C California Tortilla logo California Tortilla - -13.8%
9 B Baja Fresh logo Baja Fresh - -35.1%
10 T Taco Bamba logo Taco Bamba ▼1 -35.7%
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Taco Bell
  • Qdoba
  • Moe's Southwest Grill
  • Taco Bamba
  • Cafe Rio Mexican Grill
  • District Taco
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

342 tracked store locations in Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (150)
  • Taco Bell (91)
  • Qdoba (20)
  • Moe's Southwest Grill (18)
  • Taco Bamba (10)
  • Cafe Rio Mexican Grill (9)
  • District Taco (10)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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