Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

Iceflower tracks 747 stores from 658 casual dining chains in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Chili's Grill & Bar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar and Olive Garden.

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
658
Tracked stores
747
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. Chili's Grill & Bar and Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar - +15.2%
2 L Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar logo Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar - +3.9%
3 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - +3.4%
4 C California Pizza Kitchen logo California Pizza Kitchen ▲1 +2.5%
5 R Red Lobster logo Red Lobster - -2.6%
6 J Jack's Restaurant and Bar ▲1 -2.7%
7 T Tomatina ▲1 -4.9%
8 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers - -7.4%
9 O Outback Steakhouse logo Outback Steakhouse ▼1 -9.5%
10 B BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse logo BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse - -11.6%
11 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - -25.3%
12 O Off the Grid ▼2 -46.3%
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • Original Joe's
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse
  • Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar
  • Olive Garden
  • Jack's Restaurant and Bar
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

747 tracked store locations in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (8)
  • Original Joe's (3)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (9)
  • BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse (7)
  • Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar (4)
  • Olive Garden (3)
  • Jack's Restaurant and Bar (4)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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