Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Beverage Stores in California

Iceflower tracks 410 stores from 384 food & beverage store chains in California. Water Store grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Peasant Pies and Mochill.

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
384
Tracked stores
410
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked food & beverage store 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. Water Store and Peasant Pies sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Water Store - +14.0%
2 Peasant Pies - -15.5%
3 Mochill - -26.4%
  • Cutwater Spirits
  • Third Base Market and Spirits
  • Anna's Seafood
  • Burger Bench
  • 88 Seafood Supermarket
  • Yama Sushi Sake Attitude
  • A & J Seafood
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

410 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 18 of the 410 stores (4%); 366 of the 384 tracked chains have a single store here. 3% of the tracked grocery & convenience stores here are food & beverage stores, the same share as across the United States.

  • Cutwater Spirits (1)
  • Third Base Market and Spirits (1)
  • Anna's Seafood (1)
  • Burger Bench (1)
  • 88 Seafood Supermarket (1)
  • Yama Sushi Sake Attitude (1)
  • A & J Seafood (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 Mochill 5
  • 2 Pure Water 5
  • 3 Peasant Pies 3
  • 4 Water Store 3
  • 5 Rainbow Seafood Market 2
  • 6 Corona Liquor 2
  • 7 King Fish Market 2
  • 8 Venissimo Cheese 2
  • 9 Campitelli Cookies 2
  • 10 Sweet Lady Jane 2
  • 11 La Fromagerie 2
  • 12 Tres Islas Seafood 2
  • 13 Waterale 2
  • 14 Cailloux Cheese Shop 1
  • 15 117 West Spirits 1
  • 16 Living H2O Water Store 1
  • 17 Ventura's Water Store 1
  • 18 Local H2O 1
  • 19 The Cupcake Store 1
  • 20 Mission Seafood Market 1
  • 21 Seafood Paradise Market 1
  • 22 Goldfish Seafood Market 1
  • 23 HYDROMARTin Water Store 1
  • 24 The Water Connection 1
  • 25 The Water Haus 1
  • 26 La Cascada Pure Water 1
  • 27 Petaluma Creamery 1
  • 28 Sibby's Cupcakery 1
  • 29 Espinoza Market 1
  • 30 Poway Water 1
  • 31 Temple Seafood Market 1
  • 32 Dot's Cupcakes 1
  • 33 Monterey Fish Co. 1
  • 34 Oh La Vache 1
  • 35 Western Plaza Fish Market 1
  • 36 Joshua Tree Distilling Company 1
  • 37 Asian Live Seafood Market 1
  • 38 Ponderosa Water Store 1
  • 39 Plaza Fish Market 1
  • 40 Patty's Cakes and Desserts 1
  • 41 Barber Lee Spirits 1
  • 42 Loma Linda Waters 1
  • 43 PB Water Store 1
  • 44 Vintage Cheese Company 1
  • 45 Vella Cheese Co. 1
  • 46 Buoy and Trap Seafood 1
  • 47 Diamond Pure Water Inc. 1
  • 48 Fresh Pure Water 1
  • 49 FEED Cooperative 1
  • 50 On The Mark 1

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