Growth
Panda Express against its category
The biggest tracked US Chinese 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 Panda Express's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panda Express | +5.9% |
| 2 | China Wok | -2.4% |
| 3 | Din Tai Fung | +12.3% |
| 4 | China King | -1.0% |
| 5 | Great Wall | -5.0% |
| 6 | China Garden | -4.1% |
| 7 | New China | -6.8% |
| 8 | Hong Kong Restaurant | -5.3% |
| 9 | China House | -5.7% |
| 10 | Pei Wei | -11.0% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
2,591 tracked Panda Express locations across 49 US states and DC. California, Texas, and Florida hold 43% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- California 645
- Texas 330
- Florida 132
- Illinois 130
- Arizona 124
- Nevada 79
- Georgia 76
- Washington 74
- Colorado 64
- Ohio 60
- Virginia 56
- Oregon 52
- Michigan 50
- Indiana 49
- Tennessee 49
- Utah 49
- Missouri 45
- Maryland 42
- Hawaii 37
- Oklahoma 33
- North Carolina 30
- Alabama 28
- New Jersey 27
- Wisconsin 27
- New Mexico 26
- New York 26
- Idaho 23
- Kansas 23
- Minnesota 22
- Iowa 20
- Louisiana 20
- Pennsylvania 19
- South Carolina 19
- Kentucky 17
- Nebraska 15
- Arkansas 13
- Montana 9
- District of Columbia 7
- Mississippi 7
- Alaska 6
- Delaware 6
- Massachusetts 6
- North Dakota 5
- West Virginia 4
- Connecticut 2
- New Hampshire 2
- South Dakota 2
- Wyoming 2
- Maine 1
- Rhode Island 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Panda Express
Tracked chains Panda Express 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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