Trends · data through September 2026

Cafes & Bakery-Cafes in Iowa

Iceflower tracks 463 stores from 400 cafes & bakery-cafes in Iowa. Atomic Coffee Bar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Friedrichs Coffee and Bruegger's Bagels.

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
400
Tracked stores
463
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. Atomic Coffee Bar and Friedrichs Coffee sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 A Atomic Coffee Bar - +13.1%
2 F Friedrichs Coffee - +4.9%
3 B Bruegger's Bagels logo Bruegger's Bagels - -2.4%
4 G Grounds for Celebration - -2.4%
5 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread - -3.3%
6 S Smokey Row - -4.9%
7 B Brent's Firehouse Coffee - -7.9%
8 S Scratch Cupcakery - -12.5%
  • Panera Bread
  • Sidecar Coffee
  • Smokey Row
  • Bruegger's Bagels
  • Friedrichs Coffee
  • Reader's Cup
  • Northern Vessel
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

463 tracked store locations in Iowa. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Panera Bread (23)
  • Sidecar Coffee (2)
  • Smokey Row (6)
  • Bruegger's Bagels (8)
  • Friedrichs Coffee (3)
  • Reader's Cup (1)
  • Northern Vessel (1)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread 23
  • 2 B Bruegger's Bagels logo Bruegger's Bagels 8
  • 3 S Smokey Row 6
  • 4 S Scratch Cupcakery 4
  • 5 M Main Street Cafe 3
  • 6 F Friedrichs Coffee 3
  • 7 G Grounds for Celebration 3
  • 8 B Brent's Firehouse Coffee 3
  • 9 A Atomic Coffee Bar 3
  • 10 C Cafe Diem logo Cafe Diem 2
  • 11 B Burgie's Coffee 2
  • 12 F Fifty-Nine Grind 2
  • 13 L Lost Bear Coffee 2
  • 14 B BlackEarth Java 2
  • 15 L Louie's Coffee House 2
  • 16 U Uncommon Grounds Coffee & Bagels 2
  • 17 E Euphoria Coffee 2
  • 18 C Cody Road Coffee 2
  • 19 V Vibrant Coffeehouse + Kitchen 2
  • 20 J Jumble Coffee Co. 2
  • 21 S Sidecar Coffee 2
  • 22 M Main Street Cafe & Bakery 2
  • 23 T Twisted Bean Coffee Company 2
  • 24 T The Java House logo The Java House 2
  • 25 R Roman Expres Cafe 1
  • 26 N Niland's Cafe 1
  • 27 K KaffeGeita 1
  • 28 C Coffee on the River 1
  • 29 C Crafty's Coffee & Gifts 1
  • 30 A Amana Colonies Bakery & Cafe 1
  • 31 M Morning Bell Coffee Roasters 1
  • 32 T The Building 1
  • 33 C Cup of Joy Coffee Truck 1
  • 34 C Chairish Life Coffee Shop 1
  • 35 A Aromas 1
  • 36 M Moxi On Main Coffee Co. 1
  • 37 S Saint's Rest Coffee House 1
  • 38 M Muscari LLC 1
  • 39 M Mammitas Coffee 1
  • 40 T The Buck Stops Here 1
  • 41 1 100th Street Corner Cafe 1
  • 42 B Beancounter Coffee House 1
  • 43 C Coffee House Cafe and Goods 1
  • 44 G Glück Tea 1
  • 45 V Valerie's French Cooking 1
  • 46 L Little Woods Herbal 1
  • 47 C Campus Grounds 1
  • 48 Z Zoetic Coffee 1
  • 49 P Public House 421 1
  • 50 T The Serving Cafe 1

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