Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in California

Iceflower tracks 6,741 stores from 498 fast food restaurants chains in California. Potato Corner grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Pedro's Tacos and Shake Shack.

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
498
Tracked stores
6,741
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked fast food restaurants 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. Potato Corner and Pedro's Tacos sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Potato Corner logo Potato Corner ▲1 +17.1%
2 P Pedro's Tacos ▲2 +15.3%
3 S Shake Shack logo Shake Shack ▲1 +15.3%
4 B Burros & Fries logo Burros & Fries ▲2 +12.9%
5 D Douglas Burgers ▲2 +11.0%
6 L Louis Burgers III ▲3 +10.8%
7 F Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers logo Freddy's Frozen Custard & Steakburgers ▲2 +7.2%
8 I In-N-Out Burger logo In-N-Out Burger - +7.1%
9 C Chick-fil-A logo Chick-fil-A ▲1 +6.3%
10 M Miguel's Jr. logo Miguel's Jr. ▲2 +4.8%
11 D Dairy Queen logo Dairy Queen ▲2 +4.6%
12 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - +4.5%
13 M MOOYAH Burgers, Fries & Shakes logo MOOYAH Burgers, Fries & Shakes ▲1 +3.6%
14 F Fosters Freeze logo Fosters Freeze ▲1 +3.4%
15 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - +3.4%
  • McDonald's
  • In-N-Out Burger
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Jack in the Box
  • Taco Bell
  • Panda Express
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

6,741 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • McDonald's (953)
  • In-N-Out Burger (209)
  • Chick-fil-A (202)
  • Jack in the Box (794)
  • Taco Bell (528)
  • Panda Express (608)
  • Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers (113)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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