Trends · data through August 2026

Food & Drink trends in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

Iceflower tracks 6,086 stores from 3,832 food & drink chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. The Taco Stand grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Manna BBQ and Better Buzz Coffee.

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
3,832
Tracked stores
6,086
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. The Taco Stand and Manna BBQ sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Taco Stand ▲13 +19.5%
2 M Manna BBQ logo Manna BBQ ▲5 +19.3%
3 B Better Buzz Coffee logo Better Buzz Coffee ▲4 +19.3%
4 8 85C Bakery Cafe logo 85C Bakery Cafe ▲6 +19.1%
5 C Crab Pub ▲9 +15.7%
6 B Buffalo Wild Wings logo Buffalo Wild Wings ▲7 +12.7%
7 M Mendocino Farms logo Mendocino Farms - +12.2%
8 P Papa John's Pizza logo Papa John's Pizza ▲9 +11.7%
9 T Texas Roadhouse logo Texas Roadhouse ▲2 +10.1%
10 P Pizza Port logo Pizza Port ▲6 +9.6%
11 D Dunkin' logo Dunkin' ▲3 +9.3%
12 L Lolita's Mexican Food logo Lolita's Mexican Food ▲6 +9.1%
13 S See's Candies logo See's Candies ▲7 +7.9%
14 W Wetzel's Pretzels logo Wetzel's Pretzels ▲5 +7.4%
15 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▼1 +7.3%

Store footprint

Store map

6,086 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA, colored by category.

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