TL;DR
Black Rock Coffee Bar plans to reach 1,000 locations by 2035. The company's CEO, Mark Davis, discusses the brand's plans and strategy on the Restaurant Business podcast.
How does Black Rock Coffee Bar plan to get to 1,000 locations?
This week’s episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive features Mark Davis, the CEO of the 200-unit coffee chain.
Davis on the podcast talks about the brand’s plans to get to 1,000 shops by 2035 and we ask him how the company plans to do that amid intense competition in the beverage market.
We talk about real estate issues. We discuss life at the company since its initial public offering last year.
And Davis talks about the chain’s secret sauce, specifically its baristas, and how the brand trains those baristas and its shop leaders.
We’re talking coffee on this week’s podcast so please check it out.
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This story was originally published in Restaurant Business on September 23, 2026. Burnaze summarizes and links to the original reporting.
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