Growth
Buddy's Bar-B-Q against its category
The biggest tracked US barbecue 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 Buddy's Bar-B-Q's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Mission BBQ | +1.6% |
| 2 | Sonny's BBQ | -7.3% |
| 3 | Rudy's Country Store and Bar-B-Q | +8.7% |
| 4 | Bill Miller Bar-B-Q | +0.7% |
| 5 | City Barbeque | +17.3% |
| 6 | Famous Dave's | -6.7% |
| 7 | Dickey's Barbecue Pit | -13.6% |
| 8 | Moe's Original BBQ | +4.4% |
| 9 | Smokey Bones | -58.2% |
| 10 | Pappas Bar-B-Q | +2.4% |
| 16 | Buddy's Bar-B-Q | +16.9% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
22 tracked Buddy's Bar-B-Q locations across 4 US states. Tennessee, Alabama, and Virginia hold 95% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- Tennessee 17
- Alabama 3
- Virginia 1
- West Virginia 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Buddy's Bar-B-Q
Tracked chains Buddy's Bar-B-Q customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
Weigel's
100
Food City
66
Y-12 Federal Credit Union
32
Aubrey's
29
Calhoun's Restaurant
22
KNOXVILLE
21
KARM Stores
20
Rocky Top Markets
20
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