Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

Iceflower tracks 12,158 stores from 8,805 food & drink chains in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Highwire Coffee Roasters grew fastest over the last year, ahead of La Corneta Taqueria and KFC.

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
8,805
Tracked stores
12,158
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. Highwire Coffee Roasters and La Corneta Taqueria sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Highwire Coffee Roasters logo Highwire Coffee Roasters ▲10 +18.7%
2 L La Corneta Taqueria logo La Corneta Taqueria ▲4 +18.4%
3 K KFC logo KFC ▲4 +17.7%
4 F Five Guys logo Five Guys ▲1 +16.8%
5 J Jollibee logo Jollibee ▲4 +15.4%
6 P Panda Express logo Panda Express ▲3 +13.4%
7 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲2 +12.6%
8 S Sourdough & Co. ▲10 +11.4%
9 T The Melt logo The Melt ▲11 +10.6%
10 P Proposition Chicken ▲4 +10.5%
11 V Valerio's Tropical Bakeshop logo Valerio's Tropical Bakeshop ▲2 +10.1%
12 M Mr Pickles Sandwich Shop logo Mr Pickles Sandwich Shop ▲8 +9.1%
13 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars - +8.9%
14 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲2 +8.6%
15 F Fieldwork Brewing Company ▲4 +7.7%

Store footprint

Store map

12,158 tracked store locations in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA, colored by category.

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