Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA

Iceflower tracks 98 stores from 8 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Super Taqueria grew fastest over the last year, ahead of El Pollo Loco 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
8
Tracked stores
98
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Mexican fast food & fast casual 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. Super Taqueria and El Pollo Loco sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Super Taqueria - +9.8%
2 E El Pollo Loco logo El Pollo Loco - +9.3%
3 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - -0.7%
4 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -1.9%
5 B Baja Fresh logo Baja Fresh - -10.7%
6 T TacoMania - -19.6%
  • Taco Bell
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • Super Taqueria
  • El Pollo Loco
  • TacoMania
  • Baja Fresh
  • La Salsa
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

98 tracked store locations in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Taco Bell (41)
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (31)
  • Super Taqueria (6)
  • El Pollo Loco (9)
  • TacoMania (5)
  • Baja Fresh (3)
  • La Salsa (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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