Trends · data through September 2026

Casual Dining in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA

Iceflower tracks 203 stores from 166 casual dining chains in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. The Pasta Market grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Chili's Grill & Bar and Holder's Country Inn.

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
166
Tracked stores
203
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked casual dining 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 Pasta Market and Chili's Grill & Bar sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T The Pasta Market - +7.0%
2 C Chili's Grill & Bar logo Chili's Grill & Bar ▲1 +5.2%
3 H Holder's Country Inn - -8.0%
4 A Applebee's Grill + Bar logo Applebee's Grill + Bar - -8.7%
5 R Red Robin Gourmet Burgers logo Red Robin Gourmet Burgers - -15.0%
6 B BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse logo BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse ▼1 -18.0%
7 C California Pizza Kitchen logo California Pizza Kitchen - -25.9%
8 L Loving Hut logo Loving Hut - -64.7%
  • Chili's Grill & Bar
  • Olive Garden
  • Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar
  • BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers
  • Locale
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

203 tracked store locations in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chili's Grill & Bar (8)
  • Olive Garden (2)
  • Lazy Dog Restaurant & Bar (2)
  • BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse (3)
  • Applebee's Grill + Bar (4)
  • Red Robin Gourmet Burgers (4)
  • Locale (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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