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Top 25 Coffee shop operators worldwide
RevenueBase identified 4,311 coffee shop operators worldwide as of September 2026 and tracks 213,979 professional contacts across them, including 25,733 with verified work emails. The United States is the largest market and London the largest hub.
This list covers coffee shop operators worldwide, 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. Country and city lists for coffee shop operators follow the table.
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 coffee shop operators worldwide
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 87,648 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Starbucks, we like to say that we are not in the coffee business serving people, but in the people business serving coffee.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 11,106 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Coffee is at the heart of everything we do, and consumer satisfaction is why we do it.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 8,018 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “At Costa Coffee, we’ve been crafting with heart and changing the coffee game since 1971.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 5,445 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos uma empresa de gente apaixonada pelo que faz.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 4,899 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 1986 in London, Pret A Manger set out with a simple mission – to create handmade food that you couldn’t find anywhere else.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 4,713 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Dutch Bros Coffee is a fun-loving, mind-blowing company making a massive difference one cup at a time.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 4,497 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Welcome to Cafe Coffee Day, India’s largest café chain and the favourite hangout where the young at heart unwind.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 3,619 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Farmer Brothers delivers the coffee that fuels the backbone of the economy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 2,805 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Caribou Coffee serves high-quality handcrafted beverages and crave-worthy food in more than 800 coffeehouses worldwide.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 2,423 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Founded in Southern California in 1963, The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf® is a modern, global specialty coffee and tea house that inspires new experiences through our flavors from…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 1,987 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “JOE & THE JUICE is a fast-growing freshly made juice, coffee, and sandwich concept.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 1,958 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Caffè Nero was founded in 1997 by Gerry Ford who had a vision to bring a continental style coffee house experience to Europe and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 1,956 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Kopi Kenangan is a coffee chain with more than 1300 stores globally.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 1,816 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “7 Brew was born from a desire to change drive-thru coffee into a fun, mind-blowing experience for everyone.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 1,803 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Established in 1998, Scooter’s Coffee® has quickly distinguished itself as one of the premier franchises in the exploding specialty coffee industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 1,706 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Starbucks Coffee® is the leading retailer, roaster and brand of specialty coffee in the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 1,303 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Our vision is to be the world’s most loved coffeehouse - a true home away from home.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 1,282 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Why do so many people love BIGGBY® COFFEE?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 1,268 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “illycaffè is an Italian family business, founded in Trieste in 1933 and committed to offering the greatest coffee to the world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 1,233 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos una empresa familiar con más de 90 años de trayectoria.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 937 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Café Britt inició igual que inician la mayoría de nuestros días: en la búsqueda del mejor café.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 670 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bonafide es una compañía fundada en el año 1917, líder en elaboración y comercialización de café, chocolates y bombones y se caracteriza por la excelente calidad y tradición de…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 657 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MaxiCoffee est un groupe spécialiste de l’univers du café qui réunit la plus grande communauté d’amateurs de café.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 623 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Sweet & Coffee® fue fundada en 1997 como la primera cafetería especializada en Café y Dulces Gourmet del Ecuador.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 594 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Somos Colcafé y somos parte del Negocio de Café de Grupo Nutresa y compartimos el propósito superior: “Construir un mundo mejor donde el desarrollo sea para todos”.” 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: coffee shop operators. 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 coffee shop operators.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of coffee shop operators, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name coffee shop operators. 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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Coffee shop operators worldwide at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency is reported on each country list linked below.
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 coffee shop operators, 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.
- Coverage
- Every country. Country and city lists for coffee shop operators are linked below.
- What qualifies
- Companies worldwide whose own description of what they do matches “coffee shop operators”. 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 coffee shop operators), 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 coffee shop operators, and records with no verified work email.
- 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, 25,733 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.
Coffee shop operators by location
22 lists · largest firstEvery Coffee shop operators list RevenueBase publishes, by country and city. Counts are matching companies in each list as of its own refresh date.
Countries
- Coffee shop operators based in the United States1,001
- Coffee shop operators based in the United Kingdom315
- Coffee shop operators based in Australia176
- Coffee shop operators based in Brazil160
- Coffee shop operators based in the Netherlands150
- Coffee shop operators based in Canada142
- Coffee shop operators based in Türkiye138
- Coffee shop operators based in India133
- Coffee shop operators based in Germany122
- Coffee shop operators based in France103
- Coffee shop operators based in Saudi Arabia92
- Coffee shop operators based in Italy84
- Coffee shop operators based in the United Arab Emirates75
- Coffee shop operators based in Spain58
- Coffee shop operators based in South Africa46
- Coffee shop operators based in Denmark40
- Coffee shop operators based in Switzerland30
- Coffee shop operators based in Ireland29
- Coffee shop operators based in Singapore29
- Coffee shop operators based in Belgium27
- Coffee shop operators based in Greece27
- Coffee shop operators based in Romania27
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 coffee shop operators, 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 coffee shop operators are there worldwide?
RevenueBase identified 4,311 coffee shop operators worldwide 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?
Starbucks, headquartered in Seattle, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which country has the most coffee shop operators?
The United States leads with 1,001 companies, followed by the United Kingdom (315) and Australia (176). Every coffee shop operators list by country and city is linked on this page.
Which city has the most coffee shop operators?
London leads with 85 headquartered companies, followed by Dubai (40) and Sao Paulo (38).
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 25,733 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 4,311 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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About this data
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.