Growth
Whataburger against its category
The biggest tracked US fast food restaurants chains 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 Whataburger's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
M
McDonald's
|
-0.4% |
| 2 |
C
Chick-fil-A
|
+4.6% |
| 3 |
T
Taco Bell
|
+0.8% |
| 4 |
W
Wendy's
|
-8.6% |
| 5 |
B
Burger King
|
-2.3% |
| 6 |
P
Panda Express
|
+5.0% |
| 7 |
R
Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers
|
+2.3% |
| 8 |
A
Arby's
|
-5.1% |
| 9 | D Dairy Queen | -0.5% |
| 10 |
C
Culver's
|
+3.8% |
| 13 |
W
Whataburger
|
+4.7% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
1,210 tracked Whataburger locations across 17 US states.
Tracked stores by state
- Texas 803
- Oklahoma 52
- Florida 50
- Alabama 44
- Arizona 43
- Georgia 37
- Louisiana 30
- Tennessee 27
- Arkansas 21
- Missouri 20
- New Mexico 18
- South Carolina 18
- North Carolina 17
- Mississippi 13
- Kansas 9
- Colorado 7
- Virginia 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Whataburger
Tracked chains Whataburger customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
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