Growth
City Barbeque 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 City Barbeque'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% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
68 tracked City Barbeque locations across 9 US states. Ohio, North Carolina, and Indiana hold 68% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- Ohio 26
- North Carolina 11
- Indiana 9
- Georgia 7
- Kentucky 6
- Illinois 4
- Michigan 3
- South Carolina 1
- Wisconsin 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at City Barbeque
Tracked chains City Barbeque 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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