Trends · data through August 2026

Fast Food Restaurants in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA

Iceflower tracks 54 stores from 17 fast food restaurants chains in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA. Panda Express grew fastest over the last year, ahead of McDonald's and Taco Bell.

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
17
Tracked stores
54
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked fast food restaurants 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. Panda Express and McDonald's sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - -0.0%
2 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -0.6%
3 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell - -2.5%
4 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 -2.9%
5 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -9.9%
6 C Carl's Jr. logo Carl's Jr. ▼1 -12.4%
  • Chick-fil-A
  • Jack in the Box
  • McDonald's
  • In-N-Out Burger
  • Taco Bell
  • Panda Express
  • Wendy's
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

54 tracked store locations in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Chick-fil-A (2)
  • Jack in the Box (8)
  • McDonald's (10)
  • In-N-Out Burger (2)
  • Taco Bell (6)
  • Panda Express (7)
  • Wendy's (3)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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