Trends · data through September 2026

Boba & Drink Shops in North Carolina

Iceflower tracks 98 stores from 79 boba & drink shops in North Carolina. SipCha grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Kung Fu Tea and Sharetea.

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
79
Tracked stores
98
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked boba & drink shops

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. SipCha and Kung Fu Tea sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S SipCha - +6.6%
2 K Kung Fu Tea logo Kung Fu Tea - -11.1%
3 S Sharetea logo Sharetea - -17.3%
  • Wallace ABC Board
  • B&K Tea Cafe
  • Sushi Sho
  • Winestore Lake Norman
  • Kung Fu Tea
  • Tap Tea Bar
  • MILKLAB
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

98 tracked store locations in North Carolina. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Wallace ABC Board (1)
  • B&K Tea Cafe (2)
  • Sushi Sho (1)
  • Winestore Lake Norman (1)
  • Kung Fu Tea (5)
  • Tap Tea Bar (2)
  • MILKLAB (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 K Kung Fu Tea logo Kung Fu Tea 5
  • 2 S Sharetea logo Sharetea 4
  • 3 S SipCha 3
  • 4 B B&K Tea Cafe 2
  • 5 G Gong Cha logo Gong Cha 2
  • 6 T Tap Tea Bar 2
  • 7 M MILKLAB 2
  • 8 B Boba Baba Tea Cafe 2
  • 9 Q Quickly logo Quickly 2
  • 10 F Feng Cha logo Feng Cha 2
  • 11 B Bapu Teahouse 2
  • 12 B Binki Cafe 2
  • 13 T Twisted Sugar logo Twisted Sugar 2
  • 14 B BobaBing 1
  • 15 R Royal Tea Cafe 1
  • 16 R Richard's Coffee Shop 1
  • 17 B Beachin Boba 1
  • 18 N Ninja Cafe 1
  • 19 M Master Tea 1
  • 20 W Waxhaw Boba Tea 1
  • 21 B Bubble Duck Tea 1
  • 22 T That’s My Boba 1
  • 23 S Sip Sip Cafe 1
  • 24 A AKoKo 1
  • 25 T The Boba Tea Factory 1
  • 26 M More Tea 1
  • 27 C Chun Yang 1
  • 28 B Boba Koala 1
  • 29 S Sweet Room 1
  • 30 P Pika Tea 1
  • 31 B Boba House 1
  • 32 B Bambu logo Bambu 1
  • 33 A AniMates Hideout 1
  • 34 A A Ci-Tea 1
  • 35 B Boba T + 1
  • 36 Y Yaya Tea Chapel Hill 1
  • 37 Q Quickly Bubble Tea 1
  • 38 Y Yaya Tea Durham logo Yaya Tea Durham 1
  • 39 M Möge Tee logo Möge Tee 1
  • 40 A A Plus Smoothie Bubble Tea 1
  • 41 B Bluebird Bubble Tea 1
  • 42 R R&B Tea and Banh Mi 1
  • 43 R Royaltea 1
  • 44 S Soul Cocina 1
  • 45 M Mr Dong Yax Tea 1
  • 46 P Pop Bubble Tea 1
  • 47 A Asian Bistro & Bubble Tea 1
  • 48 M Moonraker Tea Shop 1
  • 49 F FiiZ Drinks logo FiiZ Drinks 1
  • 50 N Nguyen's Noodles & Tea 1

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