Chain · United States · data through September 2026

The Great American Bagel

Iceflower tracks 36 The Great American Bagel stores across 16 US states. It ranks #24 of 8,049 tracked US sandwich & sub shops by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +5.0% over the last year.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked stores
36
States
16
Category
Sandwich & Sub Shops
Category rank
#24

Growth

The Great American Bagel against its category

The biggest tracked US sandwich & sub shops 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 The Great American Bagel's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 Subway +1.0%
2 Arby's -4.5%
3 Jersey Mike's Subs +4.2%
4 Jimmy John's -4.2%
5 Firehouse Subs +2.4%
6 McAlister's Deli +6.4%
7 Charleys Cheesesteaks -9.4%
8 Potbelly Sandwich Shop -6.1%
9 Penn Station East Coast Subs -7.4%
10 Jason's Deli -1.4%
24 The Great American Bagel +5.0%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 98.4 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

36 tracked The Great American Bagel locations across 16 US states. Illinois, Arkansas, and Missouri hold 64% of them.

Customer overlap

Who shops at The Great American Bagel

Tracked chains The Great American Bagel customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

Seed to Table 35
Brookhaven Market 29
Sunset Foods 28
Oceana Commissary 26
Abt Electronics 25

More trends

Ready to see your market clearly?

Create an account, pick a plan, and explore your merchants, competitors and customers the way they actually behave.

Working in restaurants and QSR? See consumer transaction data for restaurants and QSR →