Trends · data through September 2026

Burger Chains in California

Iceflower tracks 6,264 stores from 805 burger chains in California. Sylvester's Burgers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Melt and The WinDow.

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
805
Tracked stores
6,264
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked burger 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. Sylvester's Burgers and The Melt sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Sylvester's Burgers ▲3 +18.7%
2 T The Melt logo The Melt ▲3 +18.6%
3 T The WinDow ▲7 +18.1%
4 T The Stand ▲2 +14.1%
5 E Eat Fantastic logo Eat Fantastic ▲6 +12.2%
6 T Troys Burgers ▲6 +10.7%
7 W Wayback Burgers logo Wayback Burgers ▲2 +9.3%
8 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 +9.0%
9 I In-N-Out Burger logo In-N-Out Burger - +7.7%
10 S Sam's Burgers ▲2 +7.5%
11 S Super Duper Burgers logo Super Duper Burgers - +6.9%
12 G Gott's Roadside logo Gott's Roadside - +5.5%
13 T The Habit Burger Grill logo The Habit Burger Grill - +5.4%
14 T Tam's Burgers - +3.4%
15 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▼1 +3.1%
  • McDonald's
  • In-N-Out Burger
  • Jack in the Box
  • Carl's Jr.
  • Burger King
  • Wendy's
  • The Habit Burger Grill
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

6,264 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (1,308)
  • In-N-Out Burger (224)
  • Jack in the Box (972)
  • Carl's Jr. (587)
  • Burger King (606)
  • Wendy's (309)
  • The Habit Burger Grill (228)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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