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Hardee's nearest ten neighbors span restaurants, packaged food, sweets, and grocery retail — a mixed-brand cluster with no single dominant pull and scores compressed into a narrow band from 0.91 to 0.95.
The shape is flat. Steak 'n Shake leads at 0.95, followed closely by Dairy Queen at 0.94 and Big Lots at 0.94 — the last of those a Grocery and Superstores brand, not a restaurant. LongHorn Steakhouse (0.93) and Arby's (0.93) round out the top five. Six of the ten neighbors are fellow Restaurant subcategory brands; the other four are Big Lots (Grocery and Superstores), Little Debbie (Sweets), Subway (Restaurant), Applebee's (Restaurant), and Reese's (Sweets). The presence of a discount superstore and two candy brands alongside casual dining and fast food chains signals that the audience shape here is defined less by food-service category than by a broader consumer profile that cuts across everyday eating and value retail.
The gap between the highest and lowest score in the top 10 is just 0.04 points — a structurally flat distribution that suggests Hardee's audience overlaps broadly and evenly with a wide swath of mainstream American consumer brands rather than clustering tightly around any single kind.
