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Top 25 Cafe chains based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 808 cafe chains headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 135,144 professional contacts across them, including 13,241 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers 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 cafe chains based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 87,648 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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 | 19,997 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dunkin' Brands Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 4,713 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 4 | 2,805 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 5 | 1,816 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 6 | 1,803 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 7 | 1,282 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Why do so many people love BIGGBY® COFFEE?” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 630 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 9 | 554 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “This page is managed by Gong Cha Franchise, LLC the largest Americas Master Franchisee supporting development in 13 states: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 517 contacts → | ||||
Indirect 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. | |||||
| 11 | 401 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Established in 2011, our goal is to connect our audiences to authentically and freshly-crafted products.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 310 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “About The Human Bean With a passion for creating happy human beans and a commitment to developing the very best coffee drive-thru in Southern Oregon, we opened our first…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 231 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “If you have ever stepped foot into a Better Buzz Coffee, you remember the smell of fresh roasted beans being brewed, the taste of our delicious uniquely crafted drinks like our…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 214 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ziggi’s Coffee is a leading specialty coffee shop and drive-thru franchise dedicated to serving only the finest roasted coffee, uniquely handcrafted drinks, and amazing…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 210 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 16 | 204 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Bluestone Lane is an Australian-inspired coffee shop, cafés & lifestyle brand committed to providing a genuine daily escape for all our locals.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Beans & Brews Coffeehouse is more than a place to grab a cup of coffee-we’re the local coffeehouse choice of the Mountain West.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 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. | |||||
| 19 | 158 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in Berlin, Germany in 1919, Landwer Coffee originated as a small coffee roasting facility.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “CC's Coffee House is Louisiana's favorite Specialty Coffee House.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 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. | |||||
| 22 | 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. | |||||
| 23 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Ellianos Coffee was founded in 2002 to provide premium quality specialty coffee, hand crafted espresso beverages, smoothies and more at convenient double-sided drive-thru…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1998, City Brew Coffee has been roasting and brewing the best coffees available anywhere.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 125 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Verve Coffee Roasters is a specialty coffee company based out of Santa Cruz, CA.” 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 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 808 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 the United States 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 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, 13,241 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.
Cafe chains by metro
- Cafe chains in New York35
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 the United States?
RevenueBase identified 808 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?
Starbucks, headquartered in Seattle, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most cafe chains?
New York leads with 35 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (18) and Seattle (12).
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 13,241 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 808 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.