Number of Qdoba restaurants from 2011 to 2017

Fast casual restaurant chain Qdoba Mexican Eats had a total of 726 restaurants in 2017. Of these, 385 were company-owned restaurants and 341 were franchised. This figure steadily increased over the course of the last four years, reaching its peak in 2017.  

 Top quick service Mexican restaurant chains

The sales of Qdoba’s company-owned restaurants also reached their peak in 2017, amounting to over 436 million U.S. dollars. In 2018, Qdoba was ranked third among other leading Mexican QSRs in the United States, such as Chipotle Mexican Grill and Taco Bell, in terms of systemwide sales. Top ranked was Taco Bell – generating U.S. systemwide sales of over 10 billion U.S. dollars – a figure more than 10 times the size of Qdoba’s systemwide sales in that year.  
 

 Strong competition 

Although Qdoba has increased its restaurant-count year-over-year since 2013, it is still majorly outnumbered by its largest competitor - Taco Bell. In 2017, Taco Bell accounted for around six and a half thousand restaurants across the United States alone, making it the leading Mexican restaurant chain in the U.S. in terms of number of stores.