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Top 25 Coffee shop chains based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 210 coffee shop chains headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 118,375 professional contacts across them, including 11,533 with verified work emails. Austin is the largest hub.
This list covers coffee shop 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 coffee shop chains based in the United States
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 | 19,997 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Dunkin' Brands Inc.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 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. | |||||
| 4 | 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. | |||||
| 5 | 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. | |||||
| 6 | 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. | |||||
| 7 | 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. | |||||
| 8 | 310 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 9 | 231 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 10 | 200 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 11 | 155 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 12 | 147 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 13 | 135 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 14 | 129 contacts → | ||||
Partial 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. | |||||
| 15 | 110 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Gregorys Coffee is a fast-growing specialty coffee brand incorporating lifestyle and wellness into their 36 and growing cafés across New York, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 85 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “BigFoot Java® is a Washington based specialty coffee drive-thru chain with 40+ locations in the Greater Seattle Area.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 81 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1991, Crimson Cup has roasted sustainably sourced award-winning coffees, sold directly to consumers and wholesale partners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 76 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 the UK and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 57 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 55 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “OUR CULTURE Connections through coffee.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Alfred first opened in 2013 on Melrose Place with a singular vision: to become the neighborhood coffee shop of LA.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 54 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Since 1995, Spot has been designing, building and operating neighborhood cafes in the American northeast.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 53 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “From our humble beginnings in 1979 when Ray opened the first Nudy’s Café in Devon, we have stayed a family-owned, hands-on business.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 47 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “In April 1994, Tara launched the first Java House location on the second floor of Prairie Lights.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 19, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 45 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “In Jason Scherr opened a small coffee shop on Bedford Avenue in the then sparsely populated neighborhood of Williamsburg, Brooklyn.” 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 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 coffee shop chains.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of coffee shop chains, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name coffee shop 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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Coffee shop 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 210 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 coffee shop 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 “coffee shop 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 coffee shop 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 coffee shop 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, 11,533 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 coffee shop 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 coffee shop chains are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 210 coffee shop 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 coffee shop chains?
Austin leads with 5 headquartered companies, followed by Seattle (5) and Atlanta (4).
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 11,533 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 210 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.