Other source · tracked monthly

thedailymeal.com

Citation profile

Where this domain grounds AI answers in Quick Service Restaurants, how much of each tracked industry it carries, and which brands depend on it.

October 2026 edition

thedailymeal.com ranks #26 of 1k cited domains in Quick Service Restaurants, grounding 2.6% of citations in this Perplexity cut, up 2.3 percentage points from Sep. Across the index, its strongest measured position is Quick Service Restaurants at 2.6%, and it appears in 1 of 31 published industries. Sampled answers that cite it name 10 tracked brands.

Source profile · October 2026 · Goodie AI Visibility Index

Source snapshot

Quick Service Restaurants · Perplexity
Citation share
2.6%
▲ 2.3 Oct vs Sep
Industry rank
#26
of 1k cited domains
Industries cited in
1/31
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Source type
Other
Inferred from the domain
Brands named alongside
10
In 104 sampled answers that cite it

Citation footprint by industry

All-model · All markets
Every industry where thedailymeal.com is cited, by citation share
Industry Edition Citation share Industry rank Month-over-month Δ
Quick Service Restaurants Current live
2.6%
#26 ▲ 2.3
1 of 31 published industries cite this domain above their display threshold Share and movement are measured independently in each industry

Brands named alongside thedailymeal.com

In sampled answers that cite this source · Perplexity only
Tracked brands named in sampled answers that cite thedailymeal.com, by number of answers
BrandIndustryShared answersVisibility scoreIndustry rank
Dave's Hot Chicken Quick Service Restaurants 61
77.4
#2
Raising Cane's Quick Service Restaurants 55
78.0
#1
Bojangles Quick Service Restaurants 50
75.7
#6
Wendy’s Quick Service Restaurants 33
73.7
#11
In-N-Out Burger Quick Service Restaurants 29
77.2
#3
Five Guys Quick Service Restaurants 24
76.3
#5
McDonald’s Quick Service Restaurants 21
76.3
#4
Burger King Quick Service Restaurants 18
73.8
#10
Taco Bell Quick Service Restaurants 11
74.1
#9
Subway Quick Service Restaurants 5
75.5
#7
10 tracked brands named in 104 sampled answers Counted from stored answers that name the brand and cite the source
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A citation profile shows how often a domain is cited as a source in sampled AI answers, and which brands those citations support.

thedailymeal.com currently grounds 2.6% of cited answers in Quick Service Restaurants.

Monthly. Each edition re-samples the tracked prompt set so month-over-month figures are directly comparable.