Category: Consumer>Food & Dining

Apr 8, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

Food Service & Drinking Places spending grew 0.5% YoY between January 1 and March 23, 2025, according to Earnest debit and credit card data. That mea...

Mar 5, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

Starbucks’ (SBUX) US card reloads fell 3.5% YoY the four weeks ended March 1, according to Earnest credit card data. Sales grew from November 2024 ...

Feb 26, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

The QSR category faced mixed results in 2024 as brands relied on value deals to counter declining sales. Meanwhile, Casual Dining gained traction, wi...

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Feb 24, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

According to data measuring credit and debit card transactions in large restaurant chains across the US, restaurant spending saw improvements in Q4 2...

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Feb 19, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

By the end of 2024, DoorDash led the national food delivery market with a 60.7% share, ahead of Uber Eats (26.1%) and Grubhub (6.3%)....

Feb 13, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

Athletic Brewing is the self-proclaimed number one nonalcoholic (NA) beer in the country. Sales at the beverage maker surged 26% in January 2025 comp...

Feb 11, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

Overall, QSR (aka Fast Food) outgrew other restaurant categories in 2024. Noticeably absent are fast food stalwarts McDonald’s (MCD), Chick-fil-A, ...

Feb 6, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

Restaurant sales growth slowed significantly in 2024, falling from 5.3% in 2023 to only 1.8%, according to Earnest credit card data. This deceleratio...

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Feb 4, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

The number of sports betters grew 18.6% YoY in January 2025 according to Earnest debit and credit card data (see chart in Dash). Sustained user growt...

Feb 4, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

Super Bowl LIX 2025 will highlight several emerging US restaurant trends and brands according to Earnest credit card data. Among them, DoorDash conti...

Jan 28, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

Restaurant sales decelerated from +5.3% YoY in 2023 to +1.8% YoY in 2024 according to Earnest credit card data. Rising costs, new wage laws, and a ge...

Jan 16, 2025 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

The egg industry is currently facing a significant shortage, which has driven egg prices to soar by 28% year-over-year (YoY) during the first 13 days...

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Dec 16, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

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Nov 19, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

Uber Eats sales are accelerating on the heels of its partnership with Instacart, announced in May. The restaurant delivery service’s sales accelera...

Nov 14, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

7 Brew Coffee share of wallet grew as it outperformed incumbents, growing nearly 500% between February 2023 and 2024, according to Earnest credit car...

Nov 13, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

Headed into the pandemic, Grubhub’s market share, including Seamless, was 16.7% according to Earnest credit card data. The same year, Uber bought P...

Nov 6, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

McDonald’s E. coli outbreak sank sales in four of the main states affected, decelerating 7.2 points to -12.5% YoY on a trailing-4 week basis from O...

Nov 4, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

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Oct 25, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

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Oct 23, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

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Oct 1, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

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Aug 20, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

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Jul 30, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

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Jul 22, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

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May 29, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

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May 22, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

CosMc’s customers are 2.4 times more likely than the average person to make a purchase at Sonic Drive-In, according to Earnest credit card data. Th...

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May 7, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

California Law AB1228 went into effect on April 1, 2024, increasing minimum wage for fast food workers from $16 to $20 an hour. During April 2024, qu...

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Feb 27, 2024 | 5 minutes read | All Posts

Founded in May 2017 with just $900 in a parking lot by four friends, Dave's Hot Chicken consistently achieved high double-digit to triple-digit year-...