Growth
Smashburger against its category
The biggest tracked US burger 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 Smashburger's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | McDonald's | +1.2% |
| 2 | Wendy's | -12.5% |
| 3 | Burger King | +6.2% |
| 4 | Culver's | +9.0% |
| 5 | Sonic Drive-In | -4.3% |
| 6 | Whataburger | +4.2% |
| 7 | In-N-Out Burger | +9.4% |
| 8 | Jack in the Box | -6.8% |
| 9 | Five Guys | +2.7% |
| 10 | Hardee's | -7.8% |
| 25 | Smashburger | -5.4% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
249 tracked Smashburger locations across 33 US states and DC. Colorado, California, and Arizona hold 34% of them.
Tracked stores by state
- Colorado 34
- California 28
- Arizona 22
- New York 22
- New Jersey 18
- Texas 17
- Florida 8
- Illinois 8
- Minnesota 8
- Pennsylvania 8
- North Carolina 7
- Nevada 7
- Ohio 7
- Kentucky 6
- Virginia 6
- Massachusetts 5
- Connecticut 4
- Michigan 4
- South Carolina 4
- Utah 4
- Georgia 3
- Oklahoma 3
- Alaska 2
- Idaho 2
- Louisiana 2
- Missouri 2
- District of Columbia 1
- Iowa 1
- Kansas 1
- Maryland 1
- Oregon 1
- Rhode Island 1
- Tennessee 1
- Washington 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at Smashburger
Tracked chains Smashburger 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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