Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

Iceflower tracks 528 stores from 447 casual dining chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Outback Steakhouse grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chili's Grill & Bar and Pegah's Kitchen.

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
447
Tracked stores
528
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked casual dining 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. Outback Steakhouse and Chili's Grill & Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse - +7.5%
2 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - +2.9%
3 P Pegah's Kitchen ▲1 +2.6%
4 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster - +1.9%
5 C California Pizza Kitchen logo California Pizza Kitchen - -0.0%
6 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - -0.5%
7 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse - -2.1%
8 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - -2.2%
9 B Black Angus Steakhouse logo Black Angus Steakhouse - -11.0%
10 B BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse logo BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse - -11.1%
11 G Gaetano's Italian Restaurant ▼1 -18.0%
12 B Buca di Beppo logo Buca di Beppo - -41.1%
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Texas Roadhouse
  • Olive Garden
  • BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • Outback Steakhouse
  • Islands Restaurants
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

528 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chili's Grill & Bar (12)
  • Texas Roadhouse (4)
  • Olive Garden (7)
  • BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse (6)
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (7)
  • Outback Steakhouse (6)
  • Islands Restaurants (7)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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