Growth
Panera Bread against its category
The biggest tracked US cafes & bakery-cafes 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 Panera Bread's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Panera Bread | -1.3% |
| 2 | Einstein Bros. Bagels | +2.3% |
| 3 | Bruegger's Bagels | -23.2% |
| 4 | Kneaders Bakery & Cafe | -8.9% |
| 5 | Tatte Bakery & Cafe | +5.9% |
| 6 | Café Zupas | -10.2% |
| 7 | La Madeleine French Café | -13.6% |
| 8 | Corner Bakery | -17.5% |
| 9 | Virgin River Hotel and Casino | +11.5% |
| 10 | Uncommon Grounds Coffee & Bagels | +6.7% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
2,410 tracked Panera Bread locations across 48 US states and DC. Florida, California, and Ohio hold 23% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- Florida 206
- California 203
- Ohio 145
- New York 143
- Illinois 135
- Texas 133
- Pennsylvania 114
- Virginia 102
- North Carolina 95
- Michigan 89
- New Jersey 85
- Missouri 76
- Massachusetts 71
- Georgia 70
- Maryland 57
- Tennessee 49
- Indiana 47
- Arizona 45
- Wisconsin 44
- Colorado 42
- Connecticut 41
- South Carolina 41
- Kentucky 39
- Minnesota 35
- Washington 33
- Alabama 31
- Kansas 24
- Iowa 23
- Nevada 20
- Oklahoma 20
- Oregon 17
- Nebraska 15
- New Hampshire 14
- West Virginia 13
- District of Columbia 12
- Louisiana 11
- Arkansas 10
- Idaho 8
- Rhode Island 8
- New Mexico 7
- Delaware 6
- Maine 6
- Mississippi 5
- Utah 5
- Montana 4
- North Dakota 4
- South Dakota 3
- Vermont 3
- Wyoming 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Panera Bread
Tracked chains Panera Bread customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
Target
100
Wegmans
93
Giant Eagle
61
Giant Food
60
Chick-fil-A
53
Starbucks
48
Dunkin'
43
Market 32
42
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