Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc., together with its subsidiaries, develops, operates, and franchises casual dining restaurants in North America and one Canadian province. Its restaurants primarily offer burgers and pizza, appetizers, salads, other entrees, desserts, wings, milkshakes, alcoholic and non-alcoholic specialty drinks, cocktails, wine, and beers. The company was founded in 1969 and is headquartered in Englewood, Colorado.
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Competitive advantage assessment
Key strengths
Operating Leverage in EffectOperating leverage is evident (score 0.72), with margins expanding over time.
Key risks
Weak or Negative Cash FlowCash generation is weak (score 0.35), limiting financial flexibility.
Below-Peer Operating EfficiencyOperating margin at 38.9th percentile indicates below-peer efficiency.
The dashed ring is the peer median. Defense scores are percentile ranks
against peers, so 50 is roughly the typical company in this group.
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Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. ranks #34 of 57
scored companies in Restaurants by moat score — the top 60%.
The widest moat in the group is Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM)
at 83/100.
Moat scores for companies ranked near RRGB in Restaurants
Pricing power is the ability to raise prices without losing volume.
Cost Advantage
Score 55
· 15% of the moat score
A cost advantage means delivering the same product for structurally less — better purchasing, denser distribution, a more automated process.
Customer Stickiness
Score 41
· 15% of the moat score
Stickiness is what makes revenue repeat without being re-won every year.
Capital Efficiency
Score 29
· 18% of the moat score
Capital efficiency asks what the company earns on the money tied up in the business.
Resilience
Score 37
· 17% of the moat score
Resilience is the capacity to get through a bad year on its own terms — enough liquidity, enough interest cover, and enough cash generation to avoid a rescue financing or a forced sale.
Scale & Market Position
Score 61
· 15% of the moat score
Scale matters only when it converts into economics.
What is Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc.'s moat score?
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. (RRGB) scores 44 out of 100 on the StatsAlpha Moat Map, which rates its competitive advantage as developing. It ranks #34 of 57 scored companies in Restaurants, the top 60%. The score is a weighted composite of 6 competitive defenses, each measured against industry peers of 56 companies in Restaurants. Its strongest defense is Scale & Market Position (61/100) and its weakest is Capital Efficiency (29/100).
How does Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. compare with other Restaurants companies?
Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. ranks #34 of 57 scored companies in Restaurants by moat score. The widest moat in Restaurants is Yum! Brands, Inc. (YUM) at 83/100. The companies ranked closest are Chanson International Holding (CHSN) at 45 just above it and Good Times Restaurants Inc. (GTIM) at 39 just below it.
How is the moat score calculated?
Each company is scored with an industry-specific template — Corporate Default in this case, chosen because the defenses that matter to a bank are not the ones that matter to a software company. Every defense combines several financial signals, and each signal is measured as a percentile against a peer group of 56 companies in Restaurants. The defenses are then weighted to produce the overall score out of 100.
Why is Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc. scored with the Corporate Default template?
Most public companies sell a product or a service at a margin, so the moat question is whether that margin survives contact with competitors. The Corporate template scores the six defenses that show up in a general operating company's financial signature: whether it can hold price, produce more cheaply than rivals, keep its customers, earn a return above its cost of capital, withstand a downturn, and turn size into economics.
Which competitive defenses are measured for Red Robin Gourmet Burgers, Inc.?
The Corporate Default template measures 6 defenses, and RRGB scores: Pricing Power (44), Cost Advantage (55), Customer Stickiness (41), Capital Efficiency (29), Resilience (37), Scale & Market Position (61). Each is scored independently as a percentile against peers, so a company can be strong on one and weak on another — the overall score reflects how those defenses are weighted for this industry.
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