Trends · data through July 2026

Food & Drink trends in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA

Iceflower tracks 318 stores from 216 food & drink chains in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA. Blenders In The Grass grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Lighthouse Coffee and Subway.

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
216
Tracked stores
318
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. Blenders In The Grass and Lighthouse Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Blenders In The Grass ▲4 +17.1%
2 L Lighthouse Coffee ▲1 +16.3%
3 S Subway logo Subway - +2.0%
4 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill ▲1 -2.2%
5 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza - -3.0%
6 B Burger King logo Burger King ▼1 -3.6%
7 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee - -3.6%
8 J Jeannine's Restaurant & Bakery - -3.8%
9 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲1 -5.3%
10 T The Habit Burger Grill logo The Habit Burger Grill - -5.3%
11 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -6.4%
12 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲1 -8.0%
13 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs - -9.3%
14 W Wendy's logo Wendy's ▼1 -14.4%
15 C Carl's Jr. logo Carl's Jr. ▼1 -17.3%

Store footprint

Store map

318 tracked store locations in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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