Trends · data through September 2026

Boba & Drink Shops in the United States

Iceflower tracks 4,934 stores from 2,141 boba & drink shops in the United States. Tealux Cafe grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Tong Sui and Candy Cloud.

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
2,141
Tracked stores
4,934
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. Tealux Cafe and Tong Sui sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tealux Cafe ▲8 +17.5%
2 T Tong Sui ▲4 +17.3%
3 C Candy Cloud logo Candy Cloud ▲4 +16.9%
4 G Gong Cha logo Gong Cha ▲1 +16.4%
5 T The Teahouse ▲13 +15.4%
6 B Boba Tea Company logo Boba Tea Company ▲2 +12.0%
7 B Boba CuCue ▲1 +10.6%
8 H HTeaO logo HTeaO - +9.5%
9 K Krak Boba ▲2 +9.3%
10 S Summerfield Tea Bar logo Summerfield Tea Bar ▲10 +9.1%
11 T The Teahouse Tapioca and Tea ▲9 +7.7%
12 T The Bep ▲9 +6.5%
13 C Chicha San Chen logo Chicha San Chen ▲7 +5.4%
14 U Uni Uni ▲8 +5.4%
15 T The Alley ▲1 +5.1%
  • Swig
  • FiiZ Drinks
  • Kung Fu Tea
  • HTeaO
  • Tai Chi Bubble Tea
  • Happy Lemon
  • The Alley
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

4,934 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Swig (118)
  • FiiZ Drinks (65)
  • Kung Fu Tea (289)
  • HTeaO (127)
  • Tai Chi Bubble Tea (32)
  • Happy Lemon (76)
  • The Alley (49)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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