Trends · data through July 2026

Coffee Shops in California

Iceflower tracks 3,634 stores from 1,335 coffee shops chains in California. Highwire Coffee Roasters grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Temple Coffee Roasters and Parakeet Cafe.

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
1,335
Tracked stores
3,634
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. Highwire Coffee Roasters and Temple Coffee Roasters sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 H Highwire Coffee Roasters logo Highwire Coffee Roasters ▲2 +18.7%
2 T Temple Coffee Roasters ▲4 +18.2%
3 P Parakeet Cafe ▲1 +17.4%
4 D Dutch Bros Coffee logo Dutch Bros Coffee - +16.6%
5 S Smoking Tiger Coffee & Bread ▲9 +13.8%
6 R Ritual Coffee ▲8 +8.7%
7 B Bird Rock Coffee Roasters logo Bird Rock Coffee Roasters - +8.4%
8 D DCH Roasters ▲8 +6.8%
9 V Verve Coffee Roasters ▲4 +6.5%
10 B Black Rock Coffee Bar logo Black Rock Coffee Bar ▼1 +6.5%
11 K Kuppa Joy Coffee House logo Kuppa Joy Coffee House ▲6 +6.2%
12 S Sul & Beans ▲5 +5.4%
13 T Tierra Mia Coffee logo Tierra Mia Coffee - +5.1%
14 A Alfred Coffee logo Alfred Coffee ▲2 +3.5%
15 R Reborn Coffee logo Reborn Coffee ▲6 +2.6%
  • Starbucks
  • Dutch Bros Coffee
  • Panera Bread
  • Better Buzz Coffee
  • The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
  • Peet's Coffee
  • Philz Coffee
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

3,634 tracked store locations in California. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Starbucks (1,250)
  • Dutch Bros Coffee (206)
  • Panera Bread (170)
  • Better Buzz Coffee (23)
  • The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf (77)
  • Peet's Coffee (138)
  • Philz Coffee (50)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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