Trends · data through September 2026

Boba & Drink Shops in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 300 stores from 176 boba & drink shops in the United Kingdom. CUPP Bubble Tea grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Sweet Corner and Bubble CiTea.

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
176
Tracked stores
300
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. CUPP Bubble Tea and Sweet Corner sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C CUPP Bubble Tea logo CUPP Bubble Tea ▲1 +3.3%
2 S Sweet Corner ▲1 -2.6%
3 B Bubble CiTea logo Bubble CiTea - -3.1%
4 G Gong cha logo Gong cha - -8.0%
5 T The Whale Tea logo The Whale Tea ▲1 -14.7%
6 M Mooboo ▼1 -18.4%
7 H Hi Tea ▼1 -24.9%
8 Z Zero Degrees - -47.5%
9 C Chatime logo Chatime ▼1 -55.1%
  • Bestway / Sher Brothers
  • Mainsgill Farm Shop
  • Chatime Coventry
  • T4 Milton Keynes
  • Bubble CiTea
  • Heytea
  • CUPP Bubble Tea
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

300 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Bestway / Sher Brothers (1)
  • Mainsgill Farm Shop (1)
  • Chatime Coventry (1)
  • T4 Milton Keynes (1)
  • Bubble CiTea (22)
  • Heytea (9)
  • CUPP Bubble Tea (19)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

  • 1 M Mooboo 29
  • 2 B Bubble CiTea logo Bubble CiTea 22
  • 3 C CUPP Bubble Tea logo CUPP Bubble Tea 19
  • 4 G Gong cha logo Gong cha 10
  • 5 H Heytea logo Heytea 9
  • 6 M Mooboo Bubble Tea 6
  • 7 H Hi Tea 5
  • 8 M Multea Choice 5
  • 9 C Chatime logo Chatime 5
  • 10 S Sweet Corner 4
  • 11 T The Whale Tea logo The Whale Tea 3
  • 12 Z Zero Degrees 3
  • 13 F Fantasia 2
  • 14 T Tea Talker 2
  • 15 K Kissaten 2
  • 16 H Happy Lemon logo Happy Lemon 2
  • 17 I I-Tea 2
  • 18 X Xing Fu Tang 2
  • 19 Y Yi Fang 2
  • 20 H HiTea 2
  • 21 T Tea Cafe 2
  • 22 P Pearls Bubble Tea 2
  • 23 D Ding Tea logo Ding Tea 2
  • 24 T Tealith Bubble Tea logo Tealith Bubble Tea 2
  • 25 G Golden Tea 2
  • 26 M Mad Squirrel 2
  • 27 T Truedan 2
  • 28 C CoCo Fresh Tea & Juice 2
  • 29 H HEYTEA logo HEYTEA 1
  • 30 M Mooboo Luton 1
  • 31 J James Borthwicks 1
  • 32 T Tea for U T4 Acton 1
  • 33 B Boobo Tea 1
  • 34 B Bubble Croffle 1
  • 35 A Ai Cha Bubble Tea Shop 1
  • 36 S S & N Stores 1
  • 37 M Mooboo Ealing 1
  • 38 H Heritage Bar 1
  • 39 C Chew Boba 1
  • 40 M Milk Run 1
  • 41 M Mooboo Chelmsford 1
  • 42 H Hey Luck Bubble Tea 1
  • 43 Q QTea 1
  • 44 K Kawaii Boba Tea Crewe 1
  • 45 T T4 Hackney 1
  • 46 G Gonuts Bubble Tea London 1
  • 47 R Reading Lola Lo 1
  • 48 D Double Bubble Tea House 1
  • 49 T Tea Time 1
  • 50 P P V Food & Wine 1

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