Trends · data through September 2026

Cafes & Bakery-Cafes in the United States

Iceflower tracks 44,263 stores from 31,924 cafes & bakery-cafes in the United States. Cali Coffee grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Heartwood Coffee Roasters and Pura Vida Miami.

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
31,924
Tracked stores
44,263
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked cafes & bakery-cafes

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. Cali Coffee and Heartwood Coffee Roasters sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 C Cali Coffee logo Cali Coffee ▲18 +15.9%
2 H Heartwood Coffee Roasters ▲2 +15.8%
3 P Pura Vida Miami ▲3 +14.8%
4 T Temple Coffee Roasters ▲8 +14.4%
5 T The Well ▲6 +14.1%
6 G Grounded Coffee Shop ▲27 +12.4%
7 C Crema Gourmet Espresso Bar ▲14 +12.1%
8 C Cure Coffeehouse logo Cure Coffeehouse ▲27 +11.1%
9 T The Mill ▲5 +9.4%
10 L Luckman Coffee Company ▲26 +9.0%
11 G Graziano's Market logo Graziano's Market ▲12 +8.8%
12 U Urth Caffe logo Urth Caffe ▲10 +7.7%
13 P Penny Ann's Cafe logo Penny Ann's Cafe ▲5 +6.6%
14 M Matcha Cafe Maiko logo Matcha Cafe Maiko ▲7 +6.5%
15 Y Yellowhammer Coffee logo Yellowhammer Coffee ▲8 +6.3%
  • Panera Bread
  • Einstein Bros. Bagels
  • Bruegger's Bagels
  • Kneaders Bakery & Cafe
  • Tatte Bakery & Cafe
  • Café Zupas
  • La Madeleine French Café
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

25,000 of 44,263 tracked store locations in the United States. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted.

  • Panera Bread (2,373)
  • Einstein Bros. Bagels (659)
  • Bruegger's Bagels (207)
  • Kneaders Bakery & Cafe (43)
  • Tatte Bakery & Cafe (25)
  • Café Zupas (7)
  • La Madeleine French Café (72)
  • Other tracked chains

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