Trends · data through July 2026

Restaurants in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

Iceflower tracks 782 stores from 573 restaurants chains in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Original Joe's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of L&L Hawaiian Barbecue and Chipotle Mexican Grill.

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
573
Tracked stores
782
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked restaurants 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. Original Joe's and L&L Hawaiian Barbecue sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 O Original Joe's ▲1 +13.7%
2 L L&L Hawaiian Barbecue logo L&L Hawaiian Barbecue ▲1 +13.6%
3 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +7.7%
4 D Denny's logo Denny's ▲2 +6.0%
5 N Nick The Greek logo Nick The Greek ▲1 +4.1%
6 E El Pollo Loco logo El Pollo Loco ▲2 +0.1%
7 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers ▲2 -0.2%
8 O Olive Garden logo Olive Garden - -0.4%
9 G Gordo Taqueria ▲1 -3.7%
10 T The Habit Burger Grill logo The Habit Burger Grill ▲1 -4.1%
11 T The Cheesecake Factory logo The Cheesecake Factory - -4.2%
12 P Pacific Catch - -6.5%
13 P Perry's ▼1 -7.1%
14 B ButtercuP ▼2 -9.5%
15 B BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse logo BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse ▼1 -10.4%
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Black Bear Diner
  • The Cheesecake Factory
  • Original Joe's
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (63)
  • Black Bear Diner (7)
  • The Cheesecake Factory (5)
  • Original Joe's (3)
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (5)
  • BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse (6)
  • Chili's Grill & Bar (7)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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