Chain · United Kingdom · data through September 2026

G Gong cha logo Gong cha

Iceflower tracks 10 Gong cha stores across 7 of the UK's 12 regions and nations. It ranks #12 of 176 tracked UK boba & drink shops by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved -8.0% over the last year.

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 stores
10
Regions
7
Category
Boba & Drink Shops
Category rank
#12

Growth

Gong cha against its category

The biggest tracked UK boba & drink shops by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Gong cha's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 B Bestway / Sher Brothers +19.4%
2 M Mainsgill Farm Shop logo Mainsgill Farm Shop +19.9%
3 C Chatime Coventry -
4 T T4 Milton Keynes -2.7%
5 B Bubble CiTea logo Bubble CiTea -3.1%
6 H Heytea logo Heytea -
7 C CUPP Bubble Tea logo CUPP Bubble Tea +3.3%
8 M Mooboo -18.4%
9 R Rochdale Cash & Carry -17.9%
10 U UTEA Macclesfield -49.2%
12 G Gong cha logo Gong cha -8.0%

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 61.4 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

10 tracked Gong cha locations across 7 of the UK's 12 regions and nations.

Tracked stores by region

  • North West 4
  • East Midlands 1
  • East of England 1
  • London 1
  • South West 1
  • West Midlands 1
  • Yorkshire and The Humber 1

Customer overlap

Who shops at Gong cha

Tracked chains Gong cha customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

O Oseyo logo Oseyo 100
J Jollibee logo Jollibee 57
N Network Rail logo Network Rail 41
U Uniqlo logo Uniqlo 18
T TK Maxx logo TK Maxx 15
B Boots logo Boots 12
S Selfridges logo Selfridges 10

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