Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA

Iceflower tracks 4,069 stores from 2,714 food & drink chains in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Shake Shack grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Lee's Sandwiches and Nick The Greek.

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
2,714
Tracked stores
4,069
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. Shake Shack and Lee's Sandwiches sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲4 +19.7%
2 L Lee's Sandwiches logo Lee's Sandwiches ▲6 +18.8%
3 N Nick The Greek logo Nick The Greek ▲8 +18.4%
4 S Starbird Chicken ▲5 +15.4%
5 I Il Fornaio ▲5 +13.2%
6 P Paris Baguette logo Paris Baguette ▲2 +13.1%
7 T Togo's logo Togo's ▲6 +11.4%
8 M Marugame Udon logo Marugame Udon ▲1 +10.2%
9 P Peet's Coffee logo Peet's Coffee ▲2 +10.1%
10 P Pizza My Heart logo Pizza My Heart ▲3 +9.8%
11 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲2 +9.3%
12 S Super Taqueria ▲4 +9.3%
13 C Casa Lupe ▲5 +9.1%
14 M Manresa Bread ▲1 +8.9%
15 E El Pollo Loco logo El Pollo Loco ▲5 +8.8%

Store footprint

Store map

4,069 tracked store locations in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA, colored by category.

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