Chain · United States · data through September 2026

Baja Fresh

Iceflower tracks 71 Baja Fresh stores across 12 US states and DC. It ranks #59 of 169 tracked US Mexican fast food & fast casual chains by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -18.5% over the last year.

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 stores
71
States
12
Category
Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual
Category rank
#59

Growth

Baja Fresh against its category

The biggest tracked US Mexican fast food & fast casual chains by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Baja Fresh's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 Taco Bell -4.4%
2 Chipotle Mexican Grill +4.2%
3 Qdoba +9.4%
4 Del Taco +0.6%
5 Moe's Southwest Grill -5.3%
6 El Pollo Loco +10.8%
7 Cafe Rio Mexican Grill -1.7%
8 Costa Vida +3.0%
9 Torchy's Tacos +10.3%
10 Taco John's +2.1%
59 Baja Fresh -18.5%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 69.7 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

71 tracked Baja Fresh locations across 12 US states and DC. California, Oregon, and Maryland hold 72% of them.

Customer overlap

Who shops at Baja Fresh

Tracked chains Baja Fresh customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

Zupan's Markets 78
Brookside At The Oak 73
Ralphs 68
Vons 64
Safeway 63

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