Trends · data through September 2026

Boba & Drink Shops in California

Iceflower tracks 1,166 stores from 521 boba & drink shops in California. Tea Be Honest grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Krak Boba and Summerfield Tea Bar.

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
521
Tracked stores
1,166
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. Tea Be Honest and Krak Boba sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 T Tea Be Honest ▲3 +16.2%
2 K Krak Boba ▲2 +14.0%
3 S Summerfield Tea Bar logo Summerfield Tea Bar ▲3 +14.0%
4 B Bigstraw Boba - +10.2%
5 W Wushiland Boba ▲1 +8.5%
6 B Breaktime Tea ▲1 +7.7%
7 B Bobalicious ▲1 +6.4%
8 I i-Tea ▲3 +6.3%
9 I It's Boba Time logo It's Boba Time - +5.7%
10 B Boba Bear logo Boba Bear ▲3 +5.4%
11 7 7 Leaves Cafe logo 7 Leaves Cafe ▲1 +3.0%
12 T The Alley - +3.0%
13 Y Yi Fang Taiwan Fruit Tea logo Yi Fang Taiwan Fruit Tea ▲3 +2.0%
14 T Tastea logo Tastea ▲1 +0.6%
15 B Bober Tea & Mochi Dough logo Bober Tea & Mochi Dough ▲1 -0.7%
  • It's Boba Time
  • Happy Lemon
  • 7 Leaves Cafe
  • Ding Tea
  • Sharetea
  • Tapioca Express
  • Teaspoon
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

1,166 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • It's Boba Time (45)
  • Happy Lemon (35)
  • 7 Leaves Cafe (33)
  • Ding Tea (34)
  • Sharetea (43)
  • Tapioca Express (12)
  • Teaspoon (41)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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