Trends · data through September 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 1,027 stores from 829 food & drink chains in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA. Sushi Teri grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Natural Cafe 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
829
Tracked stores
1,027
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. Sushi Teri and The Natural Cafe sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sushi Teri ▲1 +14.2%
2 T The Natural Cafe ▲2 +13.7%
3 K KFC logo KFC - +11.8%
4 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee ▲1 +10.6%
5 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs ▲5 +10.4%
6 L Lighthouse Coffee ▼1 +6.9%
7 J Jeannine's Restaurant & Bakery ▲2 +4.8%
8 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - +4.5%
9 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +3.7%
10 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +3.2%
11 T The Habit Burger Grill logo The Habit Burger Grill ▲1 +2.8%
12 J Jack in the Box logo Jack in the Box - +0.9%
13 B Burger King logo Burger King - -0.0%
14 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -0.9%
15 B Blenders In The Grass - -3.1%

Store footprint

Store map

1,027 tracked store locations in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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