Trends · data through July 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 6,076 stores from 3,813 food & drink chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Jollibee grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Better Buzz Coffee and 85C Bakery Cafe.

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
3,813
Tracked stores
6,076
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. Jollibee and Better Buzz Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 J Jollibee logo Jollibee ▲6 +19.7%
2 B Better Buzz Coffee logo Better Buzz Coffee ▲4 +18.8%
3 8 85C Bakery Cafe logo 85C Bakery Cafe ▲5 +18.7%
4 M Manna BBQ logo Manna BBQ ▲6 +18.5%
5 T The Taco Stand ▲12 +18.2%
6 S Sombrero Mexican Food logo Sombrero Mexican Food ▲9 +16.0%
7 C Crab Pub ▲9 +15.0%
8 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▲7 +12.1%
9 M Mendocino Farms logo Mendocino Farms - +11.8%
10 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲9 +11.6%
11 P Pizza Port logo Pizza Port ▲6 +8.8%
12 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲3 +8.7%
13 L Lolita's Mexican Food logo Lolita's Mexican Food ▲6 +8.6%
14 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲2 +7.7%
15 S See's Candies logo See's Candies ▲7 +7.3%

Store footprint

Store map

6,076 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, colored by category.

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