Trends · data through June 2026

Coffee Shops in the United States

Iceflower tracks 30,153 stores from 10,935 coffee shops chains in the United States. Black Rock Coffee Bar grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Qahwah House and Cafe Elite.

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
10,935
Tracked stores
30,153
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked coffee shops chains

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. Black Rock Coffee Bar and Qahwah House sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 B Black Rock Coffee Bar logo Black Rock Coffee Bar +19.4%
2 Q Qahwah House logo Qahwah House ▲26 +19.2%
3 C Cafe Elite logo Cafe Elite ▲16 +18.8%
4 G Gregorys Coffee logo Gregorys Coffee ▲11 +17.2%
5 E Ellianos Coffee logo Ellianos Coffee ▲2 +16.7%
6 M Mercury's Coffee Co. logo Mercury's Coffee Co. ▲11 +16.5%
7 R Rook Coffee logo Rook Coffee ▲16 +15.5%
8 B Bird Rock Coffee Roasters logo Bird Rock Coffee Roasters ▲12 +14.6%
9 F For Five Coffee Roasters ▲17 +13.7%
10 P PJ's Coffee logo PJ's Coffee ▲5 +13.3%
11 C Caribou Coffee logo Caribou Coffee ▲3 +12.9%
12 B BigFoot Java logo BigFoot Java ▲1 +12.8%
13 C Ceremony Coffee Roasters logo Ceremony Coffee Roasters ▲16 +12.5%
14 W Whidbey Coffee logo Whidbey Coffee ▲2 +12.4%
15 A Alfred Coffee logo Alfred Coffee ▲4 +12.2%
  • Starbucks
  • Panera Bread
  • Dutch Bros Coffee
  • Tim Hortons
  • Scooter's Coffee
  • Biggby Coffee
  • 7 Brew Coffee
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 30,153 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Starbucks (10,104)
  • Panera Bread (2,132)
  • Dutch Bros Coffee (574)
  • Tim Hortons (393)
  • Scooter's Coffee (606)
  • Biggby Coffee (458)
  • 7 Brew Coffee (392)
  • Other tracked chains

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