Trends · data through September 2026

Boba & Drink Shops in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH

Iceflower tracks 67 stores from 40 boba & drink shops in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. Gong Cha grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Boba Tea & Snow Ice House and Kung Fu Tea.

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
40
Tracked stores
67
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. Gong Cha and Boba Tea & Snow Ice House sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 G Gong Cha logo Gong Cha - +8.4%
2 B Boba Tea & Snow Ice House - +5.3%
3 K Kung Fu Tea logo Kung Fu Tea - -32.1%
  • Gong Cha
  • HEYTEA
  • TeaDo
  • Simple Sweets
  • Kung Fu Tea
  • Ashmont Market
  • SWEET BOBA
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

67 tracked store locations in Boston-Cambridge-Newton, MA-NH. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Gong Cha (14)
  • HEYTEA (1)
  • TeaDo (1)
  • Simple Sweets (1)
  • Kung Fu Tea (10)
  • Ashmont Market (1)
  • SWEET BOBA (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 G Gong Cha logo Gong Cha 14
  • 2 K Kung Fu Tea logo Kung Fu Tea 10
  • 3 B Boba Tea & Snow Ice House 3
  • 4 4 4 Seasons Boba Tea 2
  • 5 S SWEET BOBA 2
  • 6 B Bambu logo Bambu 2
  • 7 B Bubble Nation 1
  • 8 Y Yum Yum Bubble Tea 1
  • 9 S Sweet Mouse Cafe Boba Tea 1
  • 10 B Boba Tea and Snow Ice House 1
  • 11 C Chatime logo Chatime 1
  • 12 L Little Bake 1
  • 13 M Mago Mago 1
  • 14 C CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice 1
  • 15 T Tea-Do logo Tea-Do 1
  • 16 L Loose Leaf Boba Co 1
  • 17 V Variety Plus 1
  • 18 L LimeRed Teahouse 1
  • 19 H Heng Hai BoBa Tea 1
  • 20 C Cj Vending 1
  • 21 V Vivi Bubble Tea logo Vivi Bubble Tea 1
  • 22 G Gordon & Sons 1
  • 23 S Sweet Waffles and Boba 1
  • 24 H HEYTEA logo HEYTEA 1
  • 25 T TeaDo logo TeaDo 1
  • 26 S Simple Sweets 1
  • 27 A Ashmont Market 1
  • 28 T Tea Cafe 1
  • 29 E East Milton Package Store 1
  • 30 M Mr. Wish logo Mr. Wish 1
  • 31 H Happy Lemon logo Happy Lemon 1
  • 32 B Boba Tea and Snow Ice House Haverhill 1
  • 33 M Matcha 1
  • 34 C Cha Kung Fong & X.F Fried Chicken 1
  • 35 O OneZo Tapioca 1
  • 36 B Boba Station 1
  • 37 T The Alley 1
  • 38 Y Yucoo 1
  • 39 B Boba Tea Snow Ice House 1
  • 40 C Coco Leaf 1

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