dave's gourmet
Dave's Gourmet is a renowned brand in the sauces and condiments category, famous for its innovative and ultra-spicy hot sauces, as well as premium pasta sauces. The brand is known for its original creation, Dave's Insanity Sauce, which set a new standard in the hot sauce market. Dave's Gourmet emphasizes clean ingredients and offers a diverse range of flavors, catering to both heat enthusiasts and those seeking flavorful pasta sauces.
Shelf presence
Brand Power (0-100) blends four shelf signals. Price position is shown below for context · a value↔premium read, not part of the score.
carried in 16 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
19 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 3 categories · 5 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
Where it owns shelf
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Dave's Gourmet (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
Top competitors
the brands crowding the same categories as Dave's Gourmet · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
Most similar brands
closest to Dave's Gourmet in what it makes — matched on product name, category & description across the whole catalog, wherever they’re sold. Not who it competes with on the shelf.
The lineup
every Dave's Gourmet product in stock, cheapest first.
Sold at
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Where to find Dave's Gourmet · Bay Area
Opportunities
New doors · no Dave's Gourmet in our capture yet
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Dave's Gourmet· but the shelf it belongs on is already there, ranked by fit. Fit blends category coverage, rival presence, price-band match, and openness to independents at this scale; weigh the footprint chips and route notes against it · a 7-door chain and a single great shop are different prizes. Our capture is partial, so a widely-distributed brand may already be carried through channels we don’t index.
Lead with Dave's Gourmet Hot Sauce, Creamy Garlic Red Pepper · its most-distributed SKU (5 doors) in Hot Sauces, the biggest opening. The closest open door is Sprouts Farmers Market · 4 rivals already on that shelf.
