Growth
Mel's Drive-In against its category
The biggest tracked US family restaurants & diners by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Mel's Drive-In's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
C
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
|
+0.2% |
| 2 |
I
IHOP
|
-1.6% |
| 3 |
W
Waffle House
|
+6.5% |
| 4 |
D
Denny's
|
-6.8% |
| 5 |
B
Bob Evans
|
-1.1% |
| 6 |
B
Black Bear Diner
|
+11.7% |
| 7 |
E
Eat'n Park
|
-5.8% |
| 8 |
P
Perkins American Food Co.
|
+1.0% |
| 9 |
S
Silver Diner
|
-1.6% |
| 10 |
V
Village Inn
|
+6.7% |
| 62 | M Mel's Drive-In | +14.1% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
10 tracked Mel's Drive-In locations across 5 US states.
Tracked stores by state
- California 6
- Arizona 1
- Florida 1
- Ohio 1
- Tennessee 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Mel's Drive-In
Tracked chains Mel's Drive-In customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
M
MK&J Market
100
M
Mollie Stone's
60
Mollie Stone's
60
A
Andronico's Community Markets
57
Andronico's Community Markets
57
C
Cambridge
54
G
Gus's Community Market
52
Gus's Community Market
52
C
Courtyard San Francisco Downtown
51
A
Arguello Market
51
C
Cal Mart
48
S
San Francisco Toyota
44
San Francisco Toyota
44
T
The Good Life Grocery
43
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