Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA

Iceflower tracks 13,295 stores from 9,287 food & drink chains in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA. Nation's Giant Hamburgers grew fastest over the last year, ahead of La Corneta Taqueria and Dave's Hot Chicken.

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
9,287
Tracked stores
13,295
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. Nation's Giant Hamburgers and La Corneta Taqueria sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Nation's Giant Hamburgers ▲8 +18.7%
2 La Corneta Taqueria - +18.2%
3 Dave's Hot Chicken ▲6 +17.8%
4 Jollibee ▲8 +17.3%
5 Panera Bread ▲5 +16.6%
6 The Melt ▲16 +16.0%
7 Andytown Coffee Roasters ▲8 +14.9%
8 Chili's Grill & Bar ▲2 +14.1%
9 Proposition Chicken ▲7 +13.2%
10 Sourdough & Co. ▲10 +12.7%
11 Mr. Pickle's Sandwich Shops ▲9 +11.8%
12 Valerio's Tropical Bakeshop ▲2 +11.3%
13 El Farolito ▲5 +10.5%
14 Subway ▲3 +10.3%
15 ButtercuP ▲5 +10.1%

Store footprint

Store map

13,295 tracked store locations in San Francisco-Oakland-Fremont, CA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 833 of the 13,295 stores (6%); 8,245 of the 9,287 tracked chains have a single store here. 4% of the tracked food & drink stores here are burger chains, against 7% across California.

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