Growth
Dave's Hot Chicken against its category
The biggest tracked US chicken & wings fast food 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 Dave's Hot Chicken's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Chick-fil-A | +4.8% |
| 2 | Raising Cane's Chicken Fingers | -4.8% |
| 3 | Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen | -4.5% |
| 4 | KFC | -10.7% |
| 5 | Zaxby's | +1.1% |
| 6 | Wingstop | -6.4% |
| 7 | Bojangles' | +0.6% |
| 8 | Dave's Hot Chicken | +15.5% |
| 9 | Church's Chicken | +3.8% |
| 10 | Slim Chickens | -3.3% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
190 tracked Dave's Hot Chicken locations across 34 US states and DC. California, Texas, and New York hold 45% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- California 56
- Texas 17
- New York 12
- Colorado 8
- Florida 8
- Oregon 8
- Wisconsin 7
- Illinois 6
- Ohio 6
- Arizona 5
- Massachusetts 5
- Michigan 5
- Pennsylvania 5
- Maryland 4
- North Carolina 3
- Nevada 3
- Utah 3
- Virginia 3
- Washington 3
- Connecticut 2
- Georgia 2
- Kansas 2
- Minnesota 2
- Missouri 2
- Nebraska 2
- New Hampshire 2
- Alabama 1
- District of Columbia 1
- Delaware 1
- Idaho 1
- Indiana 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Rhode Island 1
- South Carolina 1
- Vermont 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Dave's Hot Chicken
Tracked chains Dave's Hot Chicken 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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