Growth
The Lunch Box 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 Lunch Box's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.
| # | Chain | YoY share |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
S
Subway
|
+1.6% |
| 2 |
A
Arby's
|
-4.4% |
| 3 |
J
Jersey Mike's Subs
|
+3.5% |
| 4 |
J
Jimmy John's
|
-4.0% |
| 5 |
F
Firehouse Subs
|
+3.9% |
| 6 |
M
McAlister's Deli
|
+6.4% |
| 7 |
C
Charleys Cheesesteaks
|
-9.0% |
| 8 |
P
Potbelly Sandwich Shop
|
-6.1% |
| 9 |
P
Penn Station East Coast Subs
|
-7.7% |
| 10 |
J
Jason's Deli
|
-0.7% |
| 95 | T The Lunch Box | +12.4% |
Share of tracked category spend, indexed
Store footprint
Store map
37 tracked The Lunch Box locations across 22 US states.
Tracked stores by state
- Texas 6
- California 3
- Georgia 2
- Maryland 2
- Michigan 2
- Missouri 2
- New York 2
- Ohio 2
- Pennsylvania 2
- West Virginia 2
- Alabama 1
- Florida 1
- Idaho 1
- Louisiana 1
- Minnesota 1
- Mississippi 1
- Oklahoma 1
- Rhode Island 1
- South Carolina 1
- Tennessee 1
- Virginia 1
- Wisconsin 1
Customer overlap
Who shops at The Lunch Box
Tracked chains The Lunch Box customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.
H
Hamilton Food Center
100
S
Speaking Rock Entertainment
61
I
Ivy's Home and Garden
60
D
DK Gas Station
57
DK Gas Station
57
D
Dat Kitchen Too
49
T
The Coffee Hub
49
S
Speaking Rock
45
L
La Malinche
44
C
Claiborne Hill
44
Claiborne Hill
44
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