Growth
China Express against its category
The biggest tracked US 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 China Express's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q1 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
C
Chipotle Mexican Grill
|
-2.7% |
| 2 |
T
Texas Roadhouse
|
+4.3% |
| 3 |
C
Chili's Grill & Bar
|
- |
| 4 |
O
Olive Garden
|
+2.5% |
| 5 |
A
Applebee's Grill + Bar
|
-3.6% |
| 6 |
L
LongHorn Steakhouse
|
+6.8% |
| 7 |
C
Cracker Barrel Old Country Store
|
-3.2% |
| 8 |
O
Outback Steakhouse
|
+0.6% |
| 9 |
T
The Cheesecake Factory
|
+1.0% |
| 10 |
D
Denny's
|
-10.4% |
| 185 | C China Express | -4.4% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
170 tracked China Express locations across 32 US states.
Tracked stores by state
- California 28
- Texas 15
- Georgia 14
- Florida 13
- Illinois 9
- North Carolina 9
- New York 8
- South Carolina 8
- New Jersey 7
- Pennsylvania 7
- Maryland 6
- Virginia 6
- Ohio 5
- Indiana 4
- Michigan 4
- Tennessee 3
- Arkansas 2
- Connecticut 2
- Delaware 2
- Kentucky 2
- Massachusetts 2
- Oklahoma 2
- Vermont 2
- Washington 2
- Arizona 1
- Kansas 1
- Louisiana 1
- Missouri 1
- North Dakota 1
- New Mexico 1
- South Dakota 1
- Utah 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at China Express
Tracked chains China Express customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
B
Barnwell IGA
100
Barnwell IGA
100
S
Sport's Convience Store
70
B
Bi-Rite Food Stores
59
P
Palmetto Roads
44
C
China Lake NAWS Commissary
19
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