Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

Iceflower tracks 11,817 stores from 5,096 food & drink chains in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Handel's Homemade Ice Cream grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Din Tai Fung and Aikan Sushi.

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
5,096
Tracked stores
11,817
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. Handel's Homemade Ice Cream and Din Tai Fung sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream ▲18 +18.8%
2 D Din Tai Fung logo Din Tai Fung ▲3 +18.4%
3 A Aikan Sushi ▲15 +16.0%
4 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲6 +16.0%
5 P Philz Coffee logo Philz Coffee ▲15 +15.5%
6 F Finney's Crafthouse logo Finney's Crafthouse ▲8 +15.4%
7 B Baja Fish Tacos logo Baja Fish Tacos ▲17 +14.2%
8 L L&L Hawaiian Barbecue logo L&L Hawaiian Barbecue ▲16 +14.0%
9 P Panini Kabob Grill logo Panini Kabob Grill ▲13 +13.0%
10 B Barney's Beanery ▲5 +12.3%
11 E Eureka logo Eureka ▲10 +11.2%
12 S Sonic Drive-In logo Sonic Drive-In ▲11 +11.1%
13 B Black Bear Diner logo Black Bear Diner ▲3 +11.0%
14 J Jollibee logo Jollibee ▲7 +9.8%
15 A Alfred Coffee logo Alfred Coffee ▲8 +9.6%

Store footprint

Store map

11,817 tracked store locations in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA, colored by category.

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