Snack Shack

What Snack Shack does

Snack Shack is a privately held, single-location restaurant founded in 2009 in Skowhegan, Maine, operating under the doing-business-as name 'Snack Shack.' The company sells comfort food items including burgers, sandwiches, breakfast items, fries, and beverages, with a menu emphasis on 'crispy baskets' and 'bar favorites,' delivered via dine-in service and potentially takeout at the physical storefront. Headcount is reported at 1-10 employees, and the business serves general local consumers seeking affordable, casual comfort food; no named customer accounts, enterprise contracts, or segment-specific go-to-market are disclosed.

The business model is direct-to-consumer food and beverage sales on a per-transaction basis, with secondary offerings that include prepaid gift cards purchased through the company website, a Specials program for promotional menu items, and on-premise event hosting. Pricing is not publicly disclosed and the firm operates with no proprietary technology, no app, no public API, and no integrations. Distribution is limited to one physical restaurant location with a single-country/domestic geographic scope, supported by a basic content website at snackshackme.com as the primary digital presence.

There are no funding rounds, parent company, subsidiaries, partnerships, awards, patents, regulatory actions, or leadership changes recorded in the input data. Ownership, management team details, and revenue figures are undisclosed. The company appears to operate as an independent food service business with minimal publicly observable strategic activity beyond its core menu, gift card, specials, and events programs.

Name

Snack Shack

Website

https://snackshackme.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2009

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Snack Shack is a single-location independent restaurant in Skowhegan, Maine, founded in 2009, serving burgers, sandwiches, breakfast items, fries, and beverages to local walk-in consumers through dine-in and takeout.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Casual Dining Restaurant

NAICS

Limited-Service Restaurants (722513), Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Casual Dining Restaurants (THAFACAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Burger Fast Casual (THAFABAA), Sandwiches & Wraps Fast Casual (THAFABAG)

Keywords

• Comfort food restaurant
• Casual dining service
• Bar food favorites
• Crispy baskets meals
• Quick service restaurant

Headquarters

HQ city

Skowhegan

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Supply Chain, Operations, Personnel, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Food and Beverage Sales: Snack Shack generates revenue through direct food and beverage sales to customers. The business operates as a traditional restaurant, selling comfort food items such as crispy baskets and bar favorites on a per-transaction basis.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Snack Shack is a single-location brick-and-mortar restaurant serving comfort food items including crispy baskets, bar favorites, burgers, sandwiches, breakfast items, fries, and beverages. The restaurant provides dine-in and takeout service to walk-in customers, with a menu emphasis on simple, affordable comfort food delivered with fast, friendly service.

Product overview

Snack Shack is a single-location restaurant offering a unified dining experience focused on comfort food. The company provides a straightforward menu of crispy baskets and bar favorites, supplemented by gift cards for gifting, specials for promotional offerings, events for community engagement, and customer testimonials. There is no modular platform architecture—the restaurant operates as a single, integrated dining service.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Menu (Food and Beverage Offerings) Restaurant menu featuring comfort food items including crispy baskets, bar favorites, burgers, sandwiches, breakfast items, fries, and beverages, served to dine-in and takeout customers.
• Gift Cards Prepaid gift cards that can be purchased by customers to gift the Snack Shack dining experience to other individuals.
• Events Event hosting services and community events held at the Snack Shack restaurant location for local patrons and groups.
• Specials Limited-time or promotional food and beverage offerings featuring discounted or featured menu items beyond the standard menu.

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves4 records

Expansion highlights3 records

Broad incumbents

• Applebee's: Applebee's is a national casual dining chain offering burgers, sandwiches, and bar-style comfort food in a sit-down setting — directly mirroring Snack Shack's positioning around 'crispy baskets, bar favorites, and casual dining.' Both serve the same broad consumer need for affordable, casual neighborhood dining, though Applebee's does so at national scale.
• Shake Shack: Shake Shack is a national fast-casual burger chain with a similar menu focus (burgers, fries, casual comfort food) and a value proposition around quality and friendly service. While Snack Shack is a single local operator and Shake Shack operates hundreds of units, the core product overlap (burgers, fries, casual dining experience) makes it a useful scaled reference point for the category Snack Shack competes in.
• Subway: Subway is a global sandwich fast-casual chain emphasizing affordable, quick sandwich meals. While its scale and footprint differ from Snack Shack, both compete for the same customer use case (lunch/dinner sandwich occasions) and share a simple, value-oriented positioning.
• Wendy's: Wendy's is a national burger fast-food chain with an overlapping menu (burgers, sandwiches, fries) targeting similar value-oriented casual diners. Comparable to Snack Shack on the burger and sandwich dimensions, though at vastly different scale and price point.
• Five Guys: Five Guys is a national fast-casual burger and fries chain with a similar simple-menu positioning (burgers, fries, hot dogs) and emphasis on casual, fast service. Comparable to Snack Shack in menu focus and target customer (casual diners seeking affordable burgers and fries), but operating at vastly greater scale.
• Chili's Grill & Bar: Chili's is a casual dining chain combining burgers, sandwiches, and bar favorites in a friendly service environment — closely aligned with Snack Shack's menu and value proposition. It is comparable as a reference for the bar-and-grill casual dining segment that Snack Shack occupies.
• TGI Fridays: TGI Fridays is a casual dining bar-and-grill chain offering burgers, sandwiches, and bar-style comfort food in a sit-down environment — closely matching Snack Shack's positioning on 'bar favorites' and casual dining. Comparable as a reference for the casual dining bar-and-grill format.

Direct peers

• Jersey Mike's Subs: Jersey Mike's is a fast-casual sub and sandwich chain with an emphasis on simple, fresh, affordable sandwiches — directly comparable to the sandwich and casual service dimensions of Snack Shack's menu. Both target consumers seeking quick, affordable sandwich meals in a casual setting.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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