Trends · data through August 2026

Coffee Shops in the United States

Iceflower tracks 31,314 stores from 11,245 coffee shops chains in the United States. Drip Coffee Company grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Qahwah House and Gregorys Coffee.

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
11,245
Tracked stores
31,314
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. Drip Coffee Company and Qahwah House sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 D Drip Coffee Company ▲20 +19.7%
2 Q Qahwah House logo Qahwah House ▲27 +18.8%
3 G Gregorys Coffee logo Gregorys Coffee ▲13 +18.5%
4 M Mercury's Coffee Co. logo Mercury's Coffee Co. ▲13 +16.3%
5 E Ellianos Coffee logo Ellianos Coffee ▲3 +16.2%
6 B Bird Rock Coffee Roasters logo Bird Rock Coffee Roasters ▲14 +15.2%
7 R Rook Coffee logo Rook Coffee ▲14 +14.8%
8 P PJ's Coffee logo PJ's Coffee ▲5 +14.2%
9 C Caribou Coffee logo Caribou Coffee ▲2 +12.9%
10 B BigFoot Java logo BigFoot Java ▲1 +12.6%
11 C Cutters Point Coffee logo Cutters Point Coffee ▲13 +11.9%
12 C Country Coffee ▲23 +11.9%
13 R Red Leaf Organic Coffee ▲3 +11.8%
14 W Whidbey Coffee logo Whidbey Coffee ▲2 +11.7%
15 T Tierra Mia Coffee logo Tierra Mia Coffee ▲9 +11.5%
  • 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 31,314 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Starbucks (10,353)
  • Panera Bread (2,144)
  • Dutch Bros Coffee (1,048)
  • Tim Hortons (399)
  • Scooter's Coffee (619)
  • Biggby Coffee (461)
  • 7 Brew Coffee (399)
  • Other tracked chains

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