Trends · data through September 2026

Family Restaurants & Diners in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA

Iceflower tracks 36 stores from 15 family restaurants & diners in San Jose-Sunnyvale-Santa Clara, CA. Denny's grew fastest over the last year, ahead of IHOP and Black Bear Diner.

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
15
Tracked stores
36
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked family restaurants & diners

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. Denny's and IHOP sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Denny's logo Denny's - +6.3%
2 I IHOP logo IHOP - +4.5%
3 B Black Bear Diner logo Black Bear Diner - -12.5%
  • Denny's
  • Peggy Sue's
  • IHOP
  • Omega Family Restaurant
  • Black Bear Diner
  • City Diner
  • Little Chef
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

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

  • Denny's (15)
  • Peggy Sue's (2)
  • IHOP (5)
  • Omega Family Restaurant (1)
  • Black Bear Diner (3)
  • City Diner (1)
  • Little Chef (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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