New coffee shops and cafés: where they are opening
Auspector ·
Between September 27 and October 27, 2026, 1,862 new café and coffee shop records entered our newly opened businesses section in the United States and 672 in the United Kingdom — 29,365 across the 35 countries we measure. Among each country’s 12 largest café cities, New York (35) and London (54) received the most.
How many new cafés open, and where?
Our database holds 112,057 café records in the United States and 49,196 in the United Kingdom. In the 30 days, 1,862 and 672 new ones arrived: 16.6 and 13.7 for every 1,000 café records already there. Across all sectors the same rate was 13.8 in the US and 11.5 in the UK.
| City | Café records | New, 30 days | Phone | Website information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 3,826 | 35 | 73.8% | 66.3% |
| Los Angeles | 1,633 | 34 | 78.1% | 66.7% |
| Philadelphia | 639 | 16 | 72.9% | 71.7% |
| Houston | 1,164 | 11 | 79.5% | 67.9% |
| Chicago | 1,055 | 11 | 78.2% | 76.8% |
| San Diego | 813 | 11 | 79.1% | 74.9% |
| Austin | 513 | 10 | 74.7% | 77.8% |
| San Francisco | 684 | 8 | 75.0% | 70.9% |
| San Antonio | 554 | 8 | 77.3% | 67.9% |
| Phoenix | 538 | 6 | 79.0% | 76.0% |
| Portland | 618 | <5 | 71.5% | 73.8% |
| Seattle | 597 | <5 | 74.4% | 82.4% |
New York (35) and Los Angeles (34) received the most new café records, ahead of Philadelphia (16). At state level, California received 254 new café records (14,310 in all) and New York State 102. All US figures: cafés in the United States.
| City | Café records | New, 30 days | Phone | Website information |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| London | 5,657 | 54 | 59.6% | 51.3% |
| Edinburgh | 617 | 11 | 58.7% | 52.7% |
| Manchester | 484 | 8 | 55.2% | 49.6% |
| Liverpool | 459 | 7 | 64.7% | 49.7% |
| Birmingham | 623 | 6 | 67.3% | 46.5% |
| Glasgow | 640 | <5 | 59.4% | 40.3% |
| Bristol | 438 | <5 | 61.4% | 57.1% |
| Sheffield | 431 | <5 | 66.4% | 44.5% |
| Leeds | 426 | <5 | 66.9% | 55.2% |
| Brighton and Hove | 348 | <5 | 61.5% | 50.3% |
| Belfast | 330 | <5 | 60.9% | 51.8% |
| Cardiff | 304 | <5 | 61.5% | 56.6% |
London received 54 new café records, followed by Edinburgh (11) and Manchester (8). Of the 12 cities, 7 — Glasgow among them — had fewer than five. The county view is on the Greater London page; all UK figures: cafés in the United Kingdom.
How reachable are new cafés?
In the United States, 80.8% of café records carry a phone number and 69.2% website information; in the United Kingdom, 68.3% and 47.4%. In both countries cafés list a phone less often than the average business (83.1% and 72.8% across all sectors). 15,085 UK café records — 30.7% — have a phone but no website information; in the US the figure is 20,634 (18.4%).
A café is a walk-in business. The address and coordinates on the record turn a day’s new entries into a route, and the phone, where there is one, is for booking a tasting or confirming a visit. Rules on unsolicited calls and messages differ by country and channel, and the obligation lies with the sender; check them with your own counsel before a campaign.
Six markets compared
| Country | Café records | New, 30 days | New per 1,000 café records | New per 1,000 records, all sectors | Phone | Website information |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 112,057 | 1,862 | 16.6 | 13.8 | 80.8% | 69.2% |
| Türkiye | 77,062 | 875 | 11.4 | 11.1 | 51.9% | 16.1% |
| United Kingdom | 49,196 | 672 | 13.7 | 11.5 | 68.3% | 47.4% |
| Spain | 41,372 | 522 | 12.6 | 7.8 | 61.3% | 18.6% |
| Germany | 28,499 | 328 | 11.5 | 8.3 | 68.6% | 54.9% |
| France | 11,894 | 226 | 19.0 | 9.8 | 57.8% | 32.7% |
Relative to the records already there, new café records arrived faster than records across all sectors in 5 of the 6 markets; in Türkiye the two rates were within 5% of each other. France has the highest rate of the six (19.0), on the smallest base: 11,894 café records. Website information ranges from 69.2% in the United States to 16.1% in Türkiye; for anyone selling websites, ordering pages or loyalty apps, the low end of that range is the market.
How a supplier reaches a new café
A new record is dated by the day it reached us, not by the opening day. Some of this month’s cafés are still fitting out, some opened a few weeks ago, some have traded for longer. The first conversation establishes which, because the stage decides what a new supplier can still win.
Before opening: equipment and coffee
- Espresso machine and grinders: chosen around the counter layout, the water supply and the power. Installation, a water filter and a service contract belong in the same offer. If you place machines on loan against a coffee agreement, that conversation has to happen before the fit-out ends.
- Coffee: a house espresso, a decaf, perhaps a filter coffee. A tasting at the counter, a trial bag and barista training for the opening week give the owner something concrete to compare.
- Milk, plant-based drinks, tea and syrups: for a café with little storage, delivery days and minimum order matter as much as the product.
- Cups, lids and takeaway packaging: sizes follow the menu; printed cups need more lead time than plain ones.
- Till and card terminal: the payment side has its own playbook in merchant services leads.
The first month
Once the doors are open, volumes become real and some early choices come back on the table: the second coffee on the menu, the plant-based options, cup sizes that turned out wrong, how often burrs and water filters need changing, and who comes out when the machine stops on a Saturday. A supplier who walks in during the first weeks with a concrete answer to one of these, and a delivery rhythm to propose, has a reason to be there.
Working a daily list
- Read the record before the visit: category (coffee shop, tea house, espresso bar, cafeteria), website information and, where published, opening hours — so the visit lands outside the morning rush.
- Check for repeated names: one business can have several records. The same name on several new records may be a group or a chain; ask whether the counter or a head office does the buying.
- Bring something to taste or hold: a trial bag, a cup in their sizes, a date for a machine demo.
- Route by district: coordinates turn the day’s new records into a walking or driving route.
- Keep the record ID: exports carry a stable ID per record, so notes from the visit stay attached when you export again.
Coffee is also poured in bakeries and pubs, which we measure as separate sectors: in the same 30 days the US received 2,154 new bakery records (94,631 in all), and the UK 304 new bar and pub records (40,481 in all).
The search in the panel
- Category: café, coffee shop, tea house, espresso bar, cafeteria. Each record keeps its own category and categories are chosen one by one, so a specialty roaster can leave cafeterias out — or add bakeries.
- Area: city and district; coordinates for the route.
- Time: arrived in the newly opened businesses section in the last 30 days.
- Channel: phone number on record if your team calls; “no website information” if you sell websites or ordering pages.
- Watch: save the search and new matches arrive by email every day.
Searching and counting are free on every plan, so you can see how many new cafés your territory had this month before you spend a credit (pricing). A credit is spent the first time you open a record’s details, and an export counts as opening; one credit opens one newly opened business or five established ones, and a record you have opened never costs again. Exports are CSV or XLSX. A record carries name, category, address, city, district, phone, web address, coordinates and, where available, opening hours; there is no email column and no named-person column. For restaurants and cafés together, see how to find new restaurants and cafés.