Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Salinas, CA

Iceflower tracks 813 stores from 625 food & drink chains in Salinas, CA. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Round Table Pizza and Jamba.

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
625
Tracked stores
813
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. Panda Express and Round Table Pizza sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲2 +11.3%
2 R Round Table Pizza logo Round Table Pizza - +7.2%
3 J Jamba logo Jamba - +5.2%
4 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +2.6%
5 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - -0.0%
6 T The Bagel Bakery ▲1 -0.5%
7 M Mountain Mike's Pizza logo Mountain Mike's Pizza - -0.9%
8 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -1.6%
9 D Denny's logo Denny's - -3.8%
10 K KFC logo KFC - -4.3%
11 S Subway logo Subway - -5.1%
12 J Jack in the Box logo Jack in the Box ▼1 -6.8%
13 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - -7.9%
14 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -12.7%
15 W Wingstop logo Wingstop - -13.2%

Store footprint

Store map

813 tracked store locations in Salinas, CA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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