Number of cafés in China 2020, by brand
In 2020, the U.S.-headquartered fast-food enterprise Kentucky Fried Chicken owned approximately 5,000 cafés in China, making it the most predominant coffee shop brand in the country. Luckin Coffee, a local Chinese coffee shop brand that opened in 2017, ranked second with more than 4,500 shops. In the meantime, Starbucks, the well-known multinational chain of coffeehouses, had 4,292 cafés across China.
