Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Salinas, CA

Iceflower tracks 826 stores from 628 food & drink chains in Salinas, CA. La Michoacana grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Panda Express and Jamba.

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
628
Tracked stores
826
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked food & drink 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. La Michoacana and Panda Express sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 La Michoacana ▲1 +11.3%
2 Panda Express ▲2 +8.1%
3 Jamba - +7.8%
4 Round Table Pizza - +6.9%
5 Michael's Grill & Taqueria ▲1 +5.4%
6 Burger King ▲1 +3.2%
7 Starbucks - +0.9%
8 The Bagel Bakery - +0.5%
9 McDonald's - -1.7%
10 Mountain Mike's Pizza ▲1 -2.3%
11 KFC - -3.6%
12 Denny's - -4.2%
13 Jack in the Box ▼1 -6.6%
14 Subway - -7.4%
15 Chipotle Mexican Grill - -7.6%

Store footprint

Store map

826 tracked store locations in Salinas, CA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 88 of the 826 stores (11%); 566 of the 628 tracked chains have a single store here. 9% of the tracked food & drink stores here are casual dining, against 6% across California.

Top tracked chains by store count

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