Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

Iceflower tracks 8,183 stores from 5,456 food & drink chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. The Taco Stand grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Urbane Cafe and Menchie's Frozen Yogurt.

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
5,456
Tracked stores
8,183
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. The Taco Stand and Urbane Cafe sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Taco Stand ▲8 +16.6%
2 U Urbane Cafe logo Urbane Cafe - +13.7%
3 M Menchie's Frozen Yogurt logo Menchie's Frozen Yogurt ▲9 +11.7%
4 B Brigantine logo Brigantine ▲2 +11.3%
5 W Wienerschnitzel logo Wienerschnitzel ▲8 +11.1%
6 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲4 +10.2%
7 S See's Candies logo See's Candies ▲7 +10.1%
8 H Handel's Homemade Ice Cream logo Handel's Homemade Ice Cream ▲8 +9.9%
9 I In-N-Out Burger logo In-N-Out Burger ▲2 +9.2%
10 C CAVA logo CAVA ▲5 +8.8%
11 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse ▲2 +8.8%
12 S Sayulitas Mexican Food logo Sayulitas Mexican Food ▲5 +8.2%
13 D Del Taco logo Del Taco ▲7 +8.2%
14 N Nothing Bundt Cakes logo Nothing Bundt Cakes ▲7 +7.7%
15 K Krispy Kreme logo Krispy Kreme ▲5 +7.6%

Store footprint

Store map

8,183 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, colored by category.

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