Food & BeverageBurger KingWendy's®
Food & BeverageBurger KingWendy's®

Battle for Number Two

Will Burger King or Wendy's grow sales faster this week?

Burger King just reclaimed the number two burger chain spot by systemwide sales while Wendy's fell behind in a rebuilding year. Rankings shift on filings. Consumer sales confirm them or they do not.

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Early Pool
Burger King—
Wendy's®—
$
Graduation Progress48%
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$24of $50 to graduate

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Early Pool
Burger King—
Wendy's®—
$
Graduation Progress48%
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$24of $50 to graduate

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MARKET WINDOW

August 10 to 16, compared against the August 3 to 9 prior week.

DEFINITIONS & SCOPE

Sales are total verified consumer dollars processed under each merchant's descriptor during the window, all channels. Growth is the percentage change in each merchant's sales versus the prior week.

RESOLUTION METHOD

The merchant with the higher week-over-week sales growth rate wins. Resolution requires a minimum of 10,000 qualifying transactions per side. In the event of a tie, all positions are refunded in full.

DATA SOURCE

Powered by verified transaction data from American Spend's oracle. Anonymized, aggregated, and secured. Real, objective, verified proof of spend sourced from a representative sample of consumer spending.

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