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Top 24 Cafe chains based in Australia
RevenueBase identified 204 cafe chains headquartered in Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 5,913 professional contacts across them, including 680 with verified work emails. Melbourne is the largest hub.
This list covers cafe chains headquartered in Australia, 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.
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The 24 largest cafe chains based in Australia
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 644 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Chatime we're shaking tea up!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 567 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We started in 1989, when two friends in Brisbane couldn't find a spot keep the conversation going - so they created one.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 408 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dome Café Group (“Dôme”) is a multinational company originally founded and still locally owned and domiciled in Perth, Western Australia with our first café opened in Cottesloe in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 315 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Delicious meets nutritious & where real and fresh food is within arm’s reach.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 312 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Foodco Group Pty Ltd, established in Sydney in 1989, has emerged as a prominent player in the Australasian food and coffee retail sector.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 218 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In 2003, Malaysia was the first to introduce the unique snack concept of PappaRoti.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Zarraffa’s Coffee was founded in 1996 by Kenton and Rachel Campbell.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 131 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Merlo Coffee began in Brisbane, Australia more than 30 years ago with a simple philosophy – freshly roasted coffee served by people who are passionate about coffee.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 126 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Banjo’s is a successful Bakery Café franchise with over 51 stores across Tasmania, Victoria, New South Wales and Queensland in Australia, and still growing.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Degani Australia is a newly franchised cafe network with a range of store sizes in a variety of environments, shopping centres', strips, office foyers, and so on, offering gourmet…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 101 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Sycamore Group has been serving customers since 2017.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 92 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Groove Train group is a rapidly growing collective of café/bar/restaurants located in carefully selected, prominent street and shopping centre environments.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 83 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Minor DKL is a leading Australian retail food franchisor and is the intellectual property owner of The Coffee Club franchise system with a combined 450 restaurants in 11…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 75 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “When it comes to specialty coffee ST.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 73 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “At Grinders Coffee, we’re dedicated to sourcing, roasting and delivering the best single origin and blended coffees in Australia.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 67 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “XS Espresso is a place to get your morning coffee fix, satisfy your late-night dessert cravings and everything in between!” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Miss Maud’s story began in Stockholm, where Swedish born Maud Edmiston trained to become an International Convention and Public Relations Organiser, market research expert and…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Welcome to Beechworth Bakery, Australia’s greatest bakery.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “The Jolly Miller is a family run business, boasting 14 company owned café patisseries throughout Melbourne’s outer suburbs each with its own loyal customer base and exceptionally…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 41 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Segafredo Zanetti Pty Ltd was founded in 1973 by Massimo Zanetti in Bologna, Italy.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 38 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “As an Australian owned and family run business with over 30 years in the industry, we’ve always operated with a simple promise – to serve and support the regional communities of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 31 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 30 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Coffee Guru is Australia’s own locally owned and managed coffee chain with stores across ACT, QLD & New South Wales.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 27 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Code Black Coffee is a Melbourne-based specialty coffee roaster, retailer, and wholesaler.” 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: 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 cafe chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of cafe chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name 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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Cafe chains based in Australia at a glance
As of Sep 19, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for Australia, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Australia, over 204 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 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 Australia whose own description of what they do matches “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 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 cafe chains, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Australia 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, 680 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 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 cafe chains are there based in Australia?
RevenueBase identified 204 cafe chains headquartered in Australia 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?
Chatime Australia, headquartered in Sydney, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most cafe chains?
Melbourne leads with 19 headquartered companies, followed by Sydney (12) and Brisbane (8).
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 680 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 204 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.