Trends · data through July 2026

Coffee Shops in the United Kingdom

Iceflower tracks 7,522 stores from 2,277 coffee shops chains in the United Kingdom. Seasons Cafe grew fastest over the last year, ahead of BEAR and The Coffee House.

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
2,277
Tracked stores
7,522
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. Seasons Cafe and BEAR sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 S Seasons Cafe ▲4 +19.8%
2 B BEAR ▲6 +18.8%
3 T The Coffee House ▲12 +15.7%
4 T The Coffee Pot ▲6 +14.7%
5 K Kaffeine ▲12 +14.5%
6 S Starbucks logo Starbucks - +13.6%
7 T The Early Bird ▲8 +13.4%
8 B Bewiched Coffee - +13.3%
9 J Jamaica Blue - +11.0%
10 T Trading Post Coffee Roasters ▲8 +9.6%
11 T The Grind ▲3 +7.8%
12 S SOHO Coffee - +7.7%
13 T The Coffee Cup ▲1 +6.8%
14 C Coffee Republic ▲1 +4.7%
15 F Fuel ▲7 +3.7%
  • Costa Coffee
  • Starbucks
  • Costa Express
  • Tesco Café
  • Caffè Nero
  • Tim Hortons
  • Coffee#1
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

7,522 tracked store locations in the United Kingdom. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Costa Coffee (1,065)
  • Starbucks (1,314)
  • Costa Express (1,444)
  • Tesco Café (5)
  • Caffè Nero (545)
  • Tim Hortons (78)
  • Coffee#1 (119)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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