Trends · data through September 2026

Salads & Healthy Bowls in Illinois

Iceflower tracks 134 stores from 90 salads & healthy bowls in Illinois. Protein Bar & Kitchen grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Cafe Zupas and Currito.

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
90
Tracked stores
134
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked salads & healthy bowls

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. Protein Bar & Kitchen and Cafe Zupas sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Protein Bar & Kitchen logo Protein Bar & Kitchen - +4.7%
2 C Cafe Zupas logo Cafe Zupas - +0.2%
3 C Currito logo Currito - -1.1%
4 B BIBIBOP Asian Grill logo BIBIBOP Asian Grill - -3.4%
5 S Sweetgreen logo Sweetgreen - -11.6%
6 C CoreLife Eatery logo CoreLife Eatery - -15.6%
7 C Clean Eatz logo Clean Eatz - -15.9%
  • Sweetgreen
  • BIBIBOP Asian Grill
  • Protein Bar & Kitchen
  • Just Salad
  • Cafe Zupas
  • Currito
  • Clean Eatz
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

134 tracked store locations in Illinois. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Sweetgreen (8)
  • BIBIBOP Asian Grill (12)
  • Protein Bar & Kitchen (4)
  • Just Salad (1)
  • Cafe Zupas (6)
  • Currito (4)
  • Clean Eatz (5)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 B BIBIBOP Asian Grill logo BIBIBOP Asian Grill 12
  • 2 S Sweetgreen logo Sweetgreen 8
  • 3 C Cafe Zupas logo Cafe Zupas 6
  • 4 C Clean Eatz logo Clean Eatz 5
  • 5 P Protein Bar & Kitchen logo Protein Bar & Kitchen 4
  • 6 C Currito logo Currito 4
  • 7 B Bonita Bowls 3
  • 8 F Fare 3
  • 9 C CoreLife Eatery logo CoreLife Eatery 3
  • 10 A Annapurna Simply Vegetarian 2
  • 11 K Kitchen 17 2
  • 12 F Farmer's Fridge logo Farmer's Fridge 2
  • 13 C Crazy Bowls & Wraps 2
  • 14 T True Food Kitchen logo True Food Kitchen 2
  • 15 V Vegan Tease 1
  • 16 S Sal's Bistro 1
  • 17 A AddiZone 1
  • 18 H Harrisburg Nutrition 1
  • 19 F FOCUS Nutrition Fitness Family 1
  • 20 R Round Lake Nutrition 1
  • 21 L Loving Heart 1
  • 22 L Lifters Nutrition 1
  • 23 R Rise N Thrive 1
  • 24 T The Vegan Cafe 1
  • 25 V Vegan Now 2 Go 1
  • 26 A Auntie Amy's Home Cooking 1
  • 27 N Native Foods logo Native Foods 1
  • 28 A Alice & Friends at the Glen 1
  • 29 B Baskethouse 1
  • 30 Y Your Organic Inner G 1
  • 31 B Blended Health & Smoothie Bar 1
  • 32 E Expressly Leslie Vegetarian Specialties 1
  • 33 V Vegan Plate 1
  • 34 V Vegan Bar 1
  • 35 L Liberation Kitchen 1
  • 36 K Kitchen Life 1
  • 37 F Fons 1
  • 38 D Da Luciano's 1
  • 39 C Chicago Not Dogs 1
  • 40 D Delicious Café 1
  • 41 N Nirvana Nutrition 1
  • 42 A Art of Dosa 1
  • 43 H Healthy Harvest Urban Farms 1
  • 44 C Conscious Plates 1
  • 45 B Big Cats Bowls 1
  • 46 S Sunlight Cafe 1
  • 47 P Purpose Nutrition 1
  • 48 N Neon Tiger 1
  • 49 V Veggie Fest 1
  • 50 T The Chunky Scone 1

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