Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in California

Iceflower tracks 5,158 stores from 3,815 casual dining chains in California. Cafe Bernardo grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Piatti and John's Place.

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
3,815
Tracked stores
5,158
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked casual dining 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. Cafe Bernardo and Piatti sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cafe Bernardo logo Cafe Bernardo ▲3 +18.9%
2 P Piatti ▲3 +16.3%
3 J John's Place ▲3 +15.5%
4 S Saint & Second ▲11 +15.0%
5 H Hard Rock Cafe logo Hard Rock Cafe - +14.9%
6 B Bacari Silverlake ▲3 +12.0%
7 T Tom's Famous Burgers logo Tom's Famous Burgers ▲5 +11.4%
8 B Bushfire Kitchen logo Bushfire Kitchen ▲2 +7.5%
9 P Perry's ▲3 +7.1%
10 B Bravo Farms logo Bravo Farms ▲4 +6.4%
11 D Doppio Zero logo Doppio Zero ▲8 +6.2%
12 C Cattlemens logo Cattlemens - +4.5%
13 B Bottega ▲3 +4.4%
14 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - +4.3%
15 T The Old Spaghetti Factory logo The Old Spaghetti Factory - +3.7%
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Olive Garden
  • BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
  • Outback Steakhouse
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

5,158 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chili's Grill & Bar (110)
  • Olive Garden (78)
  • BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse (64)
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (102)
  • Texas Roadhouse (21)
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (58)
  • Outback Steakhouse (43)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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