Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in California

Iceflower tracks 2,513 stores from 63 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in California. Costa Vida grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Super Taqueria and Blue Burro.

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
63
Tracked stores
2,513
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. Costa Vida and Super Taqueria sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Costa Vida logo Costa Vida ▲2 +12.1%
2 S Super Taqueria ▲2 +11.4%
3 B Blue Burro ▲3 +11.0%
4 E El Ranchito Taco Shop ▲2 +9.8%
5 V Valerie's Taco Shop logo Valerie's Taco Shop ▲1 +9.0%
6 C California Burrito ▲1 +8.3%
7 E El Pollo Loco logo El Pollo Loco - +7.3%
8 J Jimboy's Tacos logo Jimboy's Tacos ▲1 +4.9%
9 L La Salsa logo La Salsa ▲2 +4.9%
10 S Senor Baja ▲2 +4.8%
11 B Burrito King ▲2 +4.8%
12 B Baja Fish Tacos logo Baja Fish Tacos ▲1 +4.7%
13 S Sombrero Mexican Food logo Sombrero Mexican Food ▲1 +4.5%
14 M Miguel's Jr. logo Miguel's Jr. - +4.1%
15 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +4.1%
  • Taco Bell
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • El Pollo Loco
  • Del Taco
  • Rubio's
  • Miguel's Jr.
  • King Taco
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

2,513 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Taco Bell (685)
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (526)
  • El Pollo Loco (399)
  • Del Taco (368)
  • Rubio's (123)
  • Miguel's Jr. (22)
  • King Taco (17)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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