Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in California

Iceflower tracks 85,202 stores from 47,648 food & drink chains in California. Paris Baguette grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Hat and Sourdough & Co..

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
47,648
Tracked stores
85,202
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. Paris Baguette and The Hat sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Paris Baguette logo Paris Baguette ▲15 +19.9%
2 T The Hat logo The Hat ▲17 +18.5%
3 S Sourdough & Co. ▲30 +18.0%
4 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream ▲12 +17.9%
5 M Mendocino Farms logo Mendocino Farms ▲11 +17.1%
6 S See's Candies logo See's Candies ▲6 +15.2%
7 H Hard Rock Cafe logo Hard Rock Cafe ▲9 +15.2%
8 P Panini Kabob Grill logo Panini Kabob Grill ▲21 +15.0%
9 T The Taco Stand ▲8 +15.0%
10 T Togo's logo Togo's ▲22 +14.8%
11 T The Stand ▲14 +14.4%
12 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲10 +14.2%
13 D Din Tai Fung logo Din Tai Fung ▲6 +14.1%
14 O Ono Hawaiian BBQ logo Ono Hawaiian BBQ ▲5 +13.7%
15 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee ▲5 +13.4%

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 85,202 tracked store locations in California, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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