Trends · data through August 2026

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

Iceflower tracks 317 stores from 223 food & drink chains in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA. Blenders In The Grass grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Lighthouse Coffee and Chipotle Mexican Grill.

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
223
Tracked stores
317
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. Blenders In The Grass and Lighthouse Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Blenders In The Grass ▲4 +17.5%
2 L Lighthouse Coffee - +15.0%
3 C Chipotle Mexican Grill logo Chipotle Mexican Grill - -2.7%
4 J Jeannine's Restaurant & Bakery - -3.3%
5 T The Habit Burger Grill logo The Habit Burger Grill - -3.5%
6 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee - -3.7%
7 D Domino's Pizza logo Domino's Pizza - -4.5%
8 P Panda Express logo Panda Express - -4.7%
9 M McDonald's logo McDonald's - -5.2%
10 S Subway logo Subway - -6.1%
11 L Little Caesars logo Little Caesars ▲1 -6.4%
12 T Taco Bell logo Taco Bell ▲1 -7.0%
13 B Burger King logo Burger King ▲1 -7.4%
14 J Jersey Mike's Subs logo Jersey Mike's Subs - -9.2%
15 W Wendy's logo Wendy's - -14.1%

Store footprint

Store map

317 tracked store locations in Santa Maria-Santa Barbara, CA, colored by category.

Top tracked chains by store count

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