Trends · data through September 2026

Cafes & Bakery-Cafes in California

Iceflower tracks 5,729 stores from 4,521 cafes & bakery-cafes in California. Bella BRU Cafe grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Panama Bay Coffee Co. and Alfred Coffee.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
4,521
Tracked stores
5,729
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked cafes & bakery-cafes

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. Bella BRU Cafe and Panama Bay Coffee Co. sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Bella BRU Cafe ▲4 +17.0%
2 P Panama Bay Coffee Co. ▲5 +14.4%
3 A Alfred Coffee logo Alfred Coffee ▲1 +14.3%
4 T Temple Coffee Roasters ▲3 +13.2%
5 B Brothers Cafe ▲2 +7.7%
6 J Java Hut ▲2 +7.4%
7 P Pret A Manger logo Pret A Manger ▲1 +5.9%
8 C COMMUNAL logo COMMUNAL ▲1 +5.5%
9 V Verve Coffee Roasters ▲3 +4.8%
10 L Lofty Coffee ▲1 +4.6%
11 B Bird Rock Coffee Roasters logo Bird Rock Coffee Roasters - +3.1%
12 V Village Cafe ▲2 +2.6%
13 P Parakeet Cafe ▲1 +2.5%
14 S Sightglass Coffee logo Sightglass Coffee ▲1 +1.7%
15 C Cafe Vida logo Cafe Vida ▲2 +1.5%
  • Panera Bread
  • Einstein Bros. Bagels
  • Sky River Java
  • Noah's Bagels
  • Storytellers Cafe
  • Swami's Cafe
  • Boudin
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

5,729 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Panera Bread (200)
  • Einstein Bros. Bagels (54)
  • Sky River Java (1)
  • Noah's Bagels (63)
  • Storytellers Cafe (1)
  • Swami's Cafe (10)
  • Boudin (21)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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