Trends · data through September 2026

Food & Drink trends in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA

Iceflower tracks 1,064 stores from 845 food & drink chains in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA. Jersey Mike's Subs grew fastest over the last year, ahead of The Natural Cafe and Sushi Teri.

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
845
Tracked stores
1,064
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. Jersey Mike's Subs and The Natural Cafe sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 Jersey Mike's Subs ▲4 +18.8%
2 The Natural Cafe ▲2 +14.0%
3 Sushi Teri ▲1 +13.2%
4 Dutch Bros Coffee ▲1 +11.0%
5 KFC ▲1 +10.2%
6 Lighthouse Coffee - +6.7%
7 Starbucks - +3.4%
8 Jeannine's Restaurant & Bakery ▲2 +3.3%
9 Panda Express - +3.2%
10 The Habit Burger Grill - +2.8%
11 Chipotle Mexican Grill - +2.0%
12 Jack in the Box - 0.0%
13 Burger King - -0.3%
14 McDonald's - -1.6%
15 Blenders In The Grass - -3.5%

Store footprint

Store map

1,064 tracked store locations in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA, colored by category. The top 5 chains by store count run 81 of the 1,064 stores (8%); 766 of the 845 tracked chains have a single store here. 5% of the tracked food & drink stores here are wineries, against 0.9% across California.

Top tracked chains by store count

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