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Top 25 Bakery cafe chains based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 508 bakery cafe chains headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 47,944 professional contacts across them, including 3,912 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers bakery cafe chains headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 19, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest bakery cafe chains based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 31,745 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Our first bakery-cafe opened in 1987, founded with a secret sourdough starter and the belief that the best part of bread is sharing it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 1,161 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Einstein Bros.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 1,144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1978, Au Bon Pain (“from good bread”) has grown into an internationally recognized leader in the fast-casual restaurant category.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 856 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Follow the Great Harvest company page to learn more about real food, real people and real business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 662 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since opening the doors of our first location in 1983, la Madeleine has grown from a single local bakery to a beloved French café concept with approximately 85 locations…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 630 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “85°C Bakery Cafe began in 2004 in Taiwan and quickly spread across Asia, revolutionizing the coffee industry with its iced sea salt coffee, balancing out an appealing sweet and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 628 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Some 25+ years ago Gary and Colleen Worthington began their journey together to learn and perfect the art of baking artisan European breads.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 517 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founder Tzurit Or started Tatte Bakery in 2007, baking in her home kitchen and selling her delicious creations at Boston’s farmers markets.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 229 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 1989, an entrepreneur with just the right amount of chutzpah dreamed of bringing a taste of his native New York to the Berkeley, California neighborhood he called home.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Covelli Enterprises operates nearly 300 Panera Bread bakery-cafes spanning eight states.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 175 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “on any given day of the week, maman welcomes sleepy new yorkers, local celebrities, moms-on-the-go, business partners, and reunited friends into one of our many locations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 151 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Grand Central Bakery ignited a bread revolution in 1989 by introducing rustic artisan loaves to Northwest tables.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Sweetwaters Coffee and Tea was founded in 1993 in downtown Ann Arbor, MI.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 144 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2003, under the leadership of Paul Saber, President & CEO, and Patrick Rogers, Operating Partner, Manna Development Group has grown to become one of Panera Bread’s…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 138 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Our mission at Flour is simple: we are incredibly passionate about sharing the pure pleasure that mouth-watering pastries and foods and warm hospitality can bring into your life.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 120 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CJ group CULTURE - Creating culture is what CJ does best.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “A long time ago, there was a small bakery in Osaka, Japan.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 100 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Parsons Bakery is an employee-owned, family-founded bakery that has been serving communities across the South West for almost 100 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cocola is a leading foodservice operator and manufacturer of high-end, French indulgences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 90 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “In May 2001, the first Sabrina’s Café opened in the space previously occupied by the famed Litto bakery, once the source of Philadelphia’s finest cannoli.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 69 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “From melt-in-your-mouth croissants to deliciously sweet danish and cinnamon rolls, 37th Street Bakery delivers the finest baked goods to America's premier brands.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 66 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Seven Stars Bakery, a Rhode Island family owned and operated business, was born out of a true passion for artisan bread and pastry baking and a strong desire to foster meaningful…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 62 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “With a portfolio of 400 products and 65 years of combined bakery experience, Bakewise Brands (f/k/a Fleischer’s Bagels) is a trusted bakery solution provider offering a variety of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Breadsmith specializes in handcrafted, European-style artisan breads made in the tradition of old world master bakers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “A premier bakery/cafe for 25+ years - built on a foundational commitment to excellence in quality and service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: bakery cafe chains. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names bakery cafe chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of bakery cafe chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name bakery cafe chains. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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Bakery cafe chains based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 508 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among bakery cafe chains, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “bakery cafe chains”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names bakery cafe chains), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among bakery cafe chains, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,912 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 19, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
- Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.
Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names bakery cafe chains, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many bakery cafe chains are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 508 bakery cafe chains headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
Panera Bread, headquartered in United States, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most bakery cafe chains?
New York leads with 20 headquartered companies, followed by Denver (7) and Los Angeles (7).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,912 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 508 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 19, 2026.
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RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.