Growth
Olive Garden against its category
The biggest tracked US casual dining 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 Olive Garden's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Texas Roadhouse | +6.1% |
| 2 | Chili's Grill & Bar | +5.7% |
| 3 | Olive Garden | +2.0% |
| 4 | Applebee's Grill + Bar | -1.3% |
| 5 | LongHorn Steakhouse | +9.0% |
| 6 | Outback Steakhouse | +0.2% |
| 7 | Red Robin Gourmet Burgers | -5.4% |
| 8 | Red Lobster | -0.7% |
| 9 | BJ's Restaurant & Brewhouse | -8.6% |
| 10 | Cheddar's Scratch Kitchen | +1.6% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
939 tracked Olive Garden locations across 50 US states. Texas, California, and Florida hold 29% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- Texas 118
- California 83
- Florida 73
- Ohio 38
- Pennsylvania 38
- Georgia 37
- North Carolina 33
- Illinois 32
- New York 30
- Michigan 27
- Arizona 25
- Virginia 24
- Indiana 23
- Tennessee 23
- Washington 20
- New Jersey 19
- Missouri 18
- Colorado 17
- Wisconsin 17
- Alabama 16
- Maryland 16
- Massachusetts 15
- South Carolina 15
- Utah 14
- Minnesota 13
- Oklahoma 13
- Kentucky 12
- Louisiana 12
- Arkansas 11
- Iowa 10
- Kansas 10
- Oregon 10
- Nevada 9
- West Virginia 8
- Connecticut 7
- Idaho 7
- New Mexico 7
- Mississippi 6
- Nebraska 5
- Maine 4
- North Dakota 4
- New Hampshire 4
- Delaware 3
- Wyoming 3
- Alaska 2
- Hawaii 2
- Montana 2
- South Dakota 2
- Rhode Island 1
- Vermont 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Olive Garden
Tracked chains Olive Garden 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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