Trends · data through September 2026

Mexican Fast Food & Fast Casual in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA

Iceflower tracks 228 stores from 29 Mexican fast food & fast casual chains in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. Del Taco grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Valerie's Taco Shop and El Pollo Loco.

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
29
Tracked stores
228
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked Mexican fast food & fast casual 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. Del Taco and Valerie's Taco Shop sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Del Taco logo Del Taco ▲1 +14.9%
2 V Valerie's Taco Shop logo Valerie's Taco Shop - +14.8%
3 E El Pollo Loco logo El Pollo Loco - +13.5%
4 S Sombrero Mexican Food logo Sombrero Mexican Food ▲1 +10.6%
5 B Burros & Fries logo Burros & Fries ▲1 +4.9%
6 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - +2.4%
7 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - +0.5%
8 R Rubio's logo Rubio's - -0.1%
9 C City Tacos - -1.2%
10 H Hilberto's Mexican Food - -2.1%
11 Q Qdoba logo Qdoba ▼3 -66.4%
  • Taco Bell
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill
  • El Pollo Loco
  • Rubio's
  • Del Taco
  • Burros & Fries
  • Sombrero Mexican Food
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

228 tracked store locations in San Diego-Chula Vista-Carlsbad, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Taco Bell (39)
  • Chipotle Mexican Grill (41)
  • El Pollo Loco (32)
  • Rubio's (47)
  • Del Taco (19)
  • Burros & Fries (8)
  • Sombrero Mexican Food (7)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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