Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in California

Iceflower tracks 35,370 stores from 15,290 food & drink chains in California. Din Tai Fung grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Boiling Crab and The Stand.

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
15,290
Tracked stores
35,370
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. Din Tai Fung and The Boiling Crab sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Din Tai Fung logo Din Tai Fung ▲5 +19.7%
2 T The Boiling Crab ▲12 +19.2%
3 T The Stand ▲10 +17.6%
4 E El Ranchito Taco Shop ▲5 +17.6%
5 E Einstein Bros. Bagels logo Einstein Bros. Bagels ▲11 +17.6%
6 8 85C Bakery Cafe logo 85C Bakery Cafe ▲8 +17.2%
7 J Jollibee logo Jollibee ▲3 +17.1%
8 L La Michoacana ▲7 +17.1%
9 J Javier's ▲14 +16.5%
10 L Lolita's Mexican Food logo Lolita's Mexican Food ▲12 +15.8%
11 S Sbarro logo Sbarro ▲12 +14.4%
12 U Urban Plates logo Urban Plates - +13.2%
13 Y Yard House logo Yard House ▲3 +13.1%
14 A Angry Chickz logo Angry Chickz ▲8 +12.9%
15 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲4 +11.8%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 35,370 tracked store locations in California, colored by category.

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