Growth
Baja Fresh against its category
The biggest tracked US Mexican fast food & fast casual 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 Baja Fresh's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Taco Bell | -4.4% |
| 2 | Chipotle Mexican Grill | +4.2% |
| 3 | Qdoba | +9.4% |
| 4 | Del Taco | +0.6% |
| 5 | Moe's Southwest Grill | -5.3% |
| 6 | El Pollo Loco | +10.8% |
| 7 | Cafe Rio Mexican Grill | -1.7% |
| 8 | Costa Vida | +3.0% |
| 9 | Torchy's Tacos | +10.3% |
| 10 | Taco John's | +2.1% |
| 59 | Baja Fresh | -18.5% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
71 tracked Baja Fresh locations across 12 US states and DC. California, Oregon, and Maryland hold 72% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- California 36
- Oregon 11
- Maryland 4
- Nevada 4
- Virginia 4
- Washington 3
- Arizona 2
- Georgia 2
- Colorado 1
- District of Columbia 1
- Florida 1
- Rhode Island 1
- Texas 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Baja Fresh
Tracked chains Baja Fresh 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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