Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA

Iceflower tracks 919 stores from 35 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. Senor Baja grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Blue Burro and El Pollo Loco.

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
35
Tracked stores
919
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. Senor Baja and Blue Burro sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Senor Baja ▲1 +10.5%
2 B Blue Burro ▲1 +9.3%
3 E El Pollo Loco logo El Pollo Loco - +7.2%
4 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba ▲1 +6.6%
5 C Castañeda's Mexican Food logo Castañeda's Mexican Food ▲1 +5.2%
6 B Baja Fish Tacos logo Baja Fish Tacos - +4.7%
7 C Chronic Tacos ▲1 +4.0%
8 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲1 +3.9%
9 M Mi Burrito Mexican Grill ▲2 +1.7%
10 K King Taco - -0.1%
11 H HomeState logo HomeState - -0.3%
12 D Del Taco logo Del Taco - -1.5%
13 M Miguel's Jr. logo Miguel's Jr. ▲1 -3.0%
14 R Rubio's logo Rubio's - -4.1%
15 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▼1 -4.7%
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Taco Bell
  • El Pollo Loco
  • Del Taco
  • King Taco
  • Baja Fish Tacos
  • HomeState
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

919 tracked store locations in Los Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (185)
  • Taco Bell (179)
  • El Pollo Loco (215)
  • Del Taco (155)
  • King Taco (14)
  • Baja Fish Tacos (7)
  • HomeState (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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