Chain · United States · data through September 2026

P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread

Iceflower tracks 2,373 Panera Bread stores across 48 US states and DC. It ranks #1 of 31,924 tracked US cafes & bakery-cafes by card spend. Its share of tracked category spend moved +0.2% over the last year.

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 stores
2,373
States
48
Category
Cafes & Bakery-Cafes
Category rank
#1

Growth

Panera Bread against its category

The biggest tracked US cafes & bakery-cafes by card spend, with year-over-year growth of category share. Share means a chain's slice of tracked category spend. It can decline while the chain's own sales grow. The chart tracks Panera Bread's share of the category quarter by quarter, indexed to 2024 Q4 = 100.

# Chain YoY share
1 P Panera Bread logo Panera Bread +0.2%
2 E Einstein Bros. Bagels logo Einstein Bros. Bagels +2.9%
3 B Bruegger's Bagels logo Bruegger's Bagels -18.6%
4 K Kneaders Bakery & Cafe logo Kneaders Bakery & Cafe -8.6%
5 T Tatte Bakery & Cafe logo Tatte Bakery & Cafe +4.9%
6 C Café Zupas logo Café Zupas -9.4%
7 L La Madeleine French Café logo La Madeleine French Café -13.3%
8 C Corner Bakery logo Corner Bakery -16.8%
9 V Virgin River Hotel and Casino +10.8%
10 N Northstar Cafe logo Northstar Cafe -

Share of tracked category spend, indexed

100 85.3 2024 Q4 2026 Q3

Store footprint

Store map

2,373 tracked Panera Bread locations across 48 US states and DC.

Customer overlap

Who shops at Panera Bread

Tracked chains Panera Bread customers also buy from more than a similarly active shopper would, indexed to the strongest overlap (100). From real card transactions.

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