Coffee franchise · Café, Drive-thru, Non-traditional
Caribou Coffee
Caribou Coffee is a Minnesota coffee chain whose first shop opened in 1992 and which is now part of Panera Brands. Its franchise program offers full cafes, a small drive-thru-only 'cabin' format introduced in 2019, and non-traditional sites.
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- US locations
- 490Oct 2026 · store locator
- Founded
- 1992
- Headquarters
- Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Shops
- Sells franchises
- Franchising since
- not published
- Owner
- Panera Brands
- Website
- cariboucoffee.com
Where Caribou Coffee is
Brand store locator, via All The Places · Oct 2026What a franchise costs
- Liquid capital required
- $3,000,000SUS multi-unit operators: $3 million in cash or liquid assets and a commitment of 10+ locations; $6 million for international
The menu
Counted 27 Oct 2026 from cariboucoffee.comOne item per named drink or dish; sizes, hot and iced versions and flavour shots are folded in. How every chain's menu compares.
How Caribou Coffee ranks
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Not on file yet: outlet history and sales or revenue. A gap means Caribou Coffee has not published it in a source we accept, not that it is zero. How we source.