Trends · data through September 2026

Salads & Healthy Bowls in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN

Iceflower tracks 122 stores from 81 salads & healthy bowls in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. Clean Eatz grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Protein Bar & Kitchen and Cafe Zupas.

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
81
Tracked stores
122
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked salads & healthy bowls

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. Clean Eatz and Protein Bar & Kitchen sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Clean Eatz logo Clean Eatz - +8.0%
2 P Protein Bar & Kitchen logo Protein Bar & Kitchen - +2.7%
3 C Cafe Zupas logo Cafe Zupas - -1.0%
4 C Currito logo Currito - -2.3%
5 B BIBIBOP Asian Grill logo BIBIBOP Asian Grill - -3.3%
6 S Sweetgreen logo Sweetgreen - -12.7%
  • Sweetgreen
  • BIBIBOP Asian Grill
  • Protein Bar & Kitchen
  • Just Salad
  • Cafe Zupas
  • Currito
  • Soul Veg City
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

122 tracked store locations in Chicago-Naperville-Elgin, IL-IN. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Sweetgreen (8)
  • BIBIBOP Asian Grill (12)
  • Protein Bar & Kitchen (5)
  • Just Salad (1)
  • Cafe Zupas (6)
  • Currito (4)
  • Soul Veg City (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 B BIBIBOP Asian Grill logo BIBIBOP Asian Grill 12
  • 2 S Sweetgreen logo Sweetgreen 8
  • 3 C Cafe Zupas logo Cafe Zupas 6
  • 4 P Protein Bar & Kitchen logo Protein Bar & Kitchen 5
  • 5 C Currito logo Currito 4
  • 6 C Clean Eatz logo Clean Eatz 4
  • 7 B Bonita Bowls 3
  • 8 F Fare 3
  • 9 F Farmer's Fridge logo Farmer's Fridge 2
  • 10 A Annapurna Simply Vegetarian 2
  • 11 K Kitchen 17 2
  • 12 T True Food Kitchen logo True Food Kitchen 2
  • 13 V Vegan Tease 1
  • 14 N Nutrition Lounge 1
  • 15 L Loving Heart 1
  • 16 R Rise N Thrive 1
  • 17 T The Vegan Cafe 1
  • 18 B Blend Nutrition 1
  • 19 A Auntie Amy's Home Cooking 1
  • 20 N Native Foods logo Native Foods 1
  • 21 F Food Express Cafe 1
  • 22 P Power Nutrition 1
  • 23 A Alice & Friends at the Glen 1
  • 24 B Baskethouse 1
  • 25 Y Your Organic Inner G 1
  • 26 E Expressly Leslie Vegetarian Specialties 1
  • 27 V Vegan Plate 1
  • 28 B Blended Health & Smoothie Bar 1
  • 29 V Vegan Now 2 Go 1
  • 30 L Lifters Nutrition 1
  • 31 V Vegan Bar 1
  • 32 L Liberation Kitchen 1
  • 33 K Kitchen Life 1
  • 34 F Fons 1
  • 35 D Da Luciano's 1
  • 36 C Chicago Not Dogs 1
  • 37 D Delicious Café 1
  • 38 N Nirvana Nutrition 1
  • 39 A Art of Dosa 1
  • 40 C Conscious Plates 1
  • 41 S Sunlight Cafe 1
  • 42 V Veggie Fest 1
  • 43 T The Chunky Scone 1
  • 44 E Excel Nutrition 1
  • 45 A AddiZone 1
  • 46 F FOCUS Nutrition Fitness Family 1
  • 47 R Round Lake Nutrition 1
  • 48 W Wheat's End Cafe 1
  • 49 V Vibe Nutrition Frankfort 1
  • 50 S Salad House logo Salad House 1

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