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Across the top 10 neighbors, no single entity dominates — the scores run from 0.94 down to 0.87 with no sharp drop-off, a textbook broad shape where the audience overlaps widely with a diverse mix of brands and entities.
The nearest neighbor is Scooter's Coffee and Yogurt at 0.94, a Coffee and Tea entry that sits notably above the rest but doesn't create a spike — maurices (Women's Apparel, 0.90), Wings Etc. (QSR, 0.89), Casey's General Stores (Convenience Stores, 0.89), and Pizza Ranch (Casual Dining, 0.89) all follow within a tight band. The subcategory mix across the top 10 is striking: only two neighbors — Pizza Ranch and Applebee's (0.88) — share Perkins' own Casual Dining subcategory. The rest span QSR, Coffee and Tea, Convenience Stores, Women's Apparel, a TV show (Trailer Park Boys, 0.88), two Athletes (Randall Cobb at 0.87 and Pat McAfee at 0.87), a QSR (Runza, 0.87), and a Beauty Salons and Spas entry (Holiday Hair, 0.87). The cross-kind breadth — food, apparel, fuel, entertainment, sports figures — points to an audience defined less by dining category than by a consistent regional and lifestyle profile that cuts across many everyday-spend verticals.
The broad shape here reflects an audience that is recognizable to a wide range of Midwest-anchored, everyday-service brands, making Perkins' audience composition one of the more category-agnostic patterns in the casual dining space.
