# Number of bars in France: 41,300 in 2026

> 41,300 bars in operation in France, 97% outside any chain or franchise. Chains, types of bars, revenue: the market study of November 2026.

Source: https://scalon.fr/en/observatory/number-of-bars-in-france

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France has 41,300 bars, cafés, bar-tabacs (bars that also sell tobacco) and nightclubs in operation in November 2026, and 97% are independent, outside any chain or franchise. For anyone selling to bars, the market is worked one bar at a time: chains are rare and are mostly coffee shops and cafés.

By [Nicolas Morillot](https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolas-morillot-22b656174/) · Co-founder of Scalon

Sirene business registry as of November 2, 2026 · Public business listings and reviews read on November 6, 2026 · Insee, Urssaf, Bodacc

The short answer

France has 41,300 bars in operation in November 2026, according to Scalon's count on the Sirene registry (the French national business registry) and public business listings. 97% are independent, outside any chain or franchise, or about 40,100 bars; 50 chains bring together 1,170 observed bars, 636 of them franchised, mostly coffee shops and cafés. The business registry lists 50,266 locations under code 56.30Z (the French activity classification code, also called NAF or APE code), registrations with no activity included. Here we count all drinking establishments: bars, cafés, bar-tabacs, pubs, coffee shops and nightclubs, overseas territories included. A Scalon measurement: among 400 bar websites whose listing says only "bar" or "café," 36% show meals and 16% show concerts or DJs.

Get the list of the 41,300 bars in France, with the contact details available.

Published on November 2, 2026 · Updated November 9, 2026

Key figures

41,300

Bars in operation in France

Scalon estimate for November 2026, overseas territories included; the registry lists 50,266 under the drinking-establishment code

97%

Independent, outside any chain or franchise

37,835 of the 39,005 bars observed one by one, or about 40,100 once scaled to the total; 1,170 in a chain, 636 of them franchised

83.5%

Have a phone number

on a public listing or a business directory; 31.8% have a website, only 3.1% an email address (as of November 2, 2026)

## In this article

- How many bars, depending on your question?
- Why does the number of bars vary so much?
- Market vocabulary, in plain terms
- The six levels of reading the market
- Chains, franchises or independents: who runs the bars?
- What are bars really? The types
- Which bar chains exist, and who runs them?
- What revenue does a bar make?
- Where are the bars? The territory
- Is the market moving? Openings, closures and bankruptcies
- How do you use these figures for a market study?
- How do you build a prospecting list of bars?
- Which NAF code applies to a bar?
- Frequently asked questions
- Method
- What to remember

## How many bars, depending on your question?

| Question | Answer to remember |
| --- | --- |
| How many bars are in operation in France? | 41,300 |
| How many locations are in the registry? | 50,266 (November 2, 2026) |
| How many bars were observed one by one? | 39,005 (November 6, 2026) |
| What share of bars are independent, outside any chain or franchise? | 97%, or about 40,100 once scaled to the total of 41,300 |
| How many chain bars are franchised? | 636, in 22 franchises |
| How many bar chains are there? | 50, bringing together 1,170 bars (3%) |
| How many bar-tabacs and PMU (horse-race betting) bars were observed? | 7,182 |
| How many coffee shops were observed? | 4,394 |
| How many bars have employees? | 22,402 employer locations (Urssaf, the French social-contributions agency, end of 2025) |

The right answer depends on your question. To size the market, the benchmark is 41,300. For an offer aimed at bar owners, it is the 97% of independents outside any chain, about 40,100 bars. For an offer negotiated with headquarters, it is the 50 chains. For a list pulled from the activity code alone, expect 6 rows for every 5 bars in operation.

> **For anyone selling to bars, three moves.** Call the owner: 97% of bars are outside any chain or franchise, 83.5% show a phone number and only 3.1% an email address. For a chain, first check whether it runs on franchises or company-owned locations: the decision is made at the operator or at headquarters (see the chains). Track openings: 4,999 drinking establishments were created in the registry from October 2025 to September 2026, and a one-year-old list contains none of them (see the prospecting list).

A note on the bases: the total of 41,300 comes from the full count, overseas territories included. All the structure figures (independents, chains, types, regions) cover the 39,005 bars that Scalon observed one by one on November 6, 2026, each with a public bar listing and proof of activity. This base is smaller than the total. The total starts from 41,000 places read on November 2, including 1,902 locations of the drinking-establishment code whose public listing falls under another category, corrects each group by its share of real bars, then adds the 2,093 employers with no public listing found and 225 bars with no employees in the overseas territories. The structure base keeps only the listings classified as drinking establishments.

## Why does the number of bars vary so much?

The published figures on bars do not count the same thing. The difference comes first from the object counted: a company, an employer location, a registry entry or a bar in operation. It then comes from the scope: bars alone, or all drinking establishments, with cafés and nightclubs.

Take a simple example. An operator runs three bars. For Insee (France's national statistics office), which counts locations or legal units, that operator counts as three locations or as one unit. For Urssaf (France's social-contributions agency), it counts as three if each has employees. For Scalon, it counts as three bars. All the readings are correct; they just do not answer the same question.

| Publication | Figure | What is counted |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Sirene registry, November 2, 2026 | 50,266 | Locations open under code 56.30Z, registrations included |
| EPSIMAS, 2025 | 44,844 | Locations registered under code 56.30Z in mainland France |
| Bpifrance Création, April 2024 | 42,000 | Drinking establishments in mainland France on January 1, 2021 ("more than 42,000") |
| Insee, 2023 | 36,200 | 56.30Z locations, excluding micro-entrepreneurs (sole proprietors under France's simplified self-employment status) |
| Assemblée nationale (French National Assembly), 2020 | 34,880 | Drinking-establishment companies (legal units), Insee Ésane sheet, report no. 1026 of March 2025 |
| Clubbr Magazine, November 2025 | 45,280 | Bars, clubs, nightclubs and pubs; sources cited as a block (Insee, Umih…), with no method or counting date |
| Urssaf, end of 2025 | 22,402 | Employer locations, leaving out bars with no employees |
| Scalon, November 2026 | 41,300 | Bars in operation, location by location |

So there is no single "right official figure" that cancels the others. 50,266 answers "how many addresses are registered under the drinking-establishment code?" 22,402 answers "how many bars have employees?" 36,200 answers "how many locations does Insee count in 2023, excluding micro-entrepreneurs?" 41,300 answers "how many bars can you visit, call or approach today?"

The gap between the registry and our total deserves a closer look. Of the 50,266 locations open in the registry, 19,212 have no public business listing found, and 12,789 of those have no employees. Many are registrations with no visible activity. In practice: a prospecting list pulled from the activity code alone contains 6 rows for every 5 bars in operation, or 1.2 rows per bar.

The border between a bar and a restaurant also moves the total. 7,050 locations open under the drinking-establishment code have a public listing classified as a restaurant: they are counted in the article on [the number of restaurants in France](/en/observatory/number-of-restaurants-in-france), not here. If all the places our check could not settle were non-bars, the total would fall to 34,908, the figure published on November 2; if they were all bars, it would rise to 42,954. This is the main uncertainty in this count. Chain pub-style brasseries that serve meals (Au Bureau, 213; 3 Brasseurs, 75) have listings classified as restaurants: they are counted in the restaurants article.

What the other sources say

- **Insee**: 36,200 drinking-establishment locations in 2023, excluding micro-entrepreneurs, and 35,100 legal units. A bar-restaurant is counted there if it is declared under code 56.30Z. Source: Insee Première no. 2123, July 29, 2026.
- **Urssaf**: 22,402 employer locations at the end of 2025. Bars with no employees are not in it.
- **Sirene registry**: 50,266 locations open on November 2, 2026. The registry keeps registrations with no visible activity: 26,692 carry the "employer" mention, more than the 22,402 from Urssaf.
- **EPSIMAS**: 44,844 56.30Z locations in mainland France in 2025, a registry count, which also keeps registrations with no visible activity.
- **Bpifrance Création**: more than 42,000 drinking establishments on January 1, 2021, according to Insee, with no publication reference.
- **Assemblée nationale**: 34,880 drinking-establishment companies in 2020, according to the Insee Ésane sheet. These are legal units: an operator of several bars counts as one.
- **Scalon**: 41,300 bars in operation, without the bar-restaurants that public business listings classify as restaurants. The gap with each source comes from what it counts, not from an error.

Our 41,300 sits above Insee (36,200 locations, excluding micro-entrepreneurs) notably because we count places in operation with no SIRET number found (12,837 listings, all bars in our check), bars whose SIRET number is that of a restaurant (6,183 among the observed bars) and bars run by micro-entrepreneurs, whom Insee leaves out. A SIRET number is the French ID of a business location. Our total sits below the registry (50,266), which keeps registrations with no activity. It lands in the same range as Bpifrance (42,000 locations on January 1, 2021) without being the same count. The Assemblée nationale counts companies, not locations: that is why its 34,880 is not comparable to Bpifrance's.

These lines cannot be added or averaged. The scope is also about to move: a July 2025 decree brings a new nomenclature into force on January 1, 2027 ([APE codes change in 2027](/en/blog/naf-2025-code-changes)). A 2027 count will not necessarily be comparable to the one for 2023.

### What Insee counts in drinking establishments

Code 56.30Z covers bars, cafés, café-tabacs, nightclubs where drinks dominate and mobile drink sellers; takeout and tea rooms are excluded. We found no Insee count of bars by type: that is what ours makes possible.

## Market vocabulary, in plain terms

The words of the sector do not mean the same thing depending on who uses them. Here are the ones used in this article.

| Term | Simple definition |
| --- | --- |
| Bar in operation | A place that serves drinks for on-site consumption, with a public bar listing and proof of activity (a location open in the registry or a customer review less than a year old), or an employer location from the registry. Restaurants, tea rooms and wine shops are not included; coffee shops, on the other hand, are counted. |
| Drinking establishment | The word used by the law and by Insee for a place where drinks are served to be drunk on site: bar, café, pub, nightclub. |
| Liquor license | The permit to sell alcohol, issued to the operator for a place. On its own it does not say whether the bar is in operation: this article does not count it. |
| Bar-tabac | A bar that also runs a tobacco counter. The companies that run them are often general partnerships (sociétés en nom collectif). All tobacconists in mainland France, with or without a bar, are counted in our study on the [number of tobacconists in France](/en/observatory/number-of-tobacconists-in-france). |
| PMU | The horse-race betting point. In a public listing, it is almost always attached to the bar-tabac. |
| Coffee shop | A place centered on coffee, often a chain brand. It is counted among bars, not among restaurants. In the registry, coffee shop chains are often declared as fast food. |
| Independent | A bar that is not part of any chain, franchise, brand license, group or buying group: its owner decides, with no headquarters or franchisor. |
| Operator of several bars | An owner or a company that runs several bars with no shared storefront name. Its bars remain independents. |
| Chain | Bars that carry the same confirmed brand: a shared trade name or website, noted by hand and checked against a public source. |
| Franchise | A chain whose bars belong to several companies and whose public page recruits franchisees. |
| Company-owned locations | A chain whose bars are almost all run by a single company, with no recruitment of franchisees. |
| License or concession | A chain whose brand is entrusted to separate operators who pay for the right to use it (Starbucks, Delirium Café). Different from the liquor license. |
| Cooperative or label network | A chain that a public source says brings together operators who each keep their own business (Bistrot de Pays). |
| Group | The owner of several venues or brands, cited by a public source (Barrière, O'Sullivans). |

The word "independent" is confusing. Here it has the meaning that matters for selling: a bar outside any chain, franchise or buying group, where the owner decides with no headquarters or franchisor. An independent can buy its beer from a partner brewer or display a brand's logo: that does not make it a chain.

## The six levels of reading the market

To avoid mixing bases, the study goes down six levels, from the registry to the region. Levels 3 to 6 are read as shares of the "observed bars": the 39,005 bars identified one by one on November 6, 2026. Going from these observed bars to the total of 41,300 works as follows.

| From observed bars to the total | Bars |
| --- | --- |
| Bars observed on November 6 | 39,005 |
| Minus places that are not bars according to the check | −1,521 |
| Plus café-tabacs whose listing falls under another category | +1,395 |
| Plus employers with no public listing | +2,093 |
| Plus bars with no employees in the overseas territories | +225 |
| Rounding and overlap gap (by difference) | +101 |
| Total | 41,298 (41,300) |

The last column of the next table scales each share to the total of 41,300, rounded to the nearest hundred.

| Level | What it counts | Share of observed bars | Scaled to the total (41,300) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1. The registry | Locations open in the registry; public listings not closed | 50,266 locations in the registry; 51,386 public bar listings not closed, in mainland France | not applicable |
| 2. Activity | Bars in operation, all of France | 41,300 (estimated headcount) | 41,300 |
| 3. The format | Bar / bar-tabac and PMU / coffee shop / café / nightclub | 60.0% / 15.8% / 10.8% / 9.1% / 4.2% | 24,800 / 6,500 / 4,500 / 3,800 / 1,700 |
| 4. The type of bar | Neighborhood bar or café / bar-tabac and PMU (the format, plus 1,020 bars whose listing says "bar" or "café" but whose name or registry entry marks them as a bar-tabac) / coffee shop | 33.1% / 18.4% / 11.3% | 13,600 / 7,600 / 4,700 |
| 5. The storefront name or affiliation | Independents (outside any chain, franchise or buying group) / chain bars | 97.0% / 3.0% | 40,100 / 1,200 |
| 6. The territory | Region, département | Île-de-France 15.7% | 6,500 |

A bar is classified first by the format of its public listing, then refined into a type (see below).

## Chains, franchises or independents: who runs the bars?

Of the 39,005 observed bars, 37,835 are independent, or 97.0%: they are not part of any chain, franchise, brand license, group or buying group. The other 1,170 (3.0%) belong to 50 chains with a confirmed brand, including 636 franchised bars.

| Market structure | Bars | Share of observed bars |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Independents, outside any chain or franchise | 37,835 | 97.0% |
| Chain bars (franchise, license, company-owned, group, buying group) | 1,170 | 3.0% |
| of which franchised bars | 636 | 1.6% |

The market is therefore highly fragmented. The 10 largest chains bring together 713 bars, or 1.8% of the observed bars. Even Starbucks, the largest brand with 226 bars, accounts for only about 1 observed bar in 173. Among the independents, 711 bars belong to 303 operators that run several under one company or one website, with no shared storefront name.

In practice: you work a list of bars one bar at a time. The person you talk to is almost always the owner.

A public benchmark, not to be confused with ours: according to Insee, 95% of the legal units in the sector are independent and 92% run only one location. Insee calls a company independent when it belongs to no group of companies: a franchisee with its own company counts as independent there. We count it in its chain, because the storefront name and part of the purchasing are decided at the franchisor.

A chain whose bars share no name and no website, or a buying group with no shared storefront name, is not seen: the share of independents is a maximum (see the method).

## What are bars really? The types

The word "bar" covers very different places. Of the 39,005 observed bars, 18,233 listings say only "bar" or "café." Scalon refines 5,341 of them (29%) from the name of the place ("Bar Tabac du Stade," "… Pub," "… bar à jeux") or from the registry activity code (food service, tobacco, hotel, association, retail). That leaves 12,892 neighborhood bars or cafés with no specialty shown, or 33.1% of the observed bars. To find out what they really are, Scalon had the home page of 400 of these sites, drawn at random, read automatically, then reread 40 of them itself.

Caption: among 400 bar websites whose listing says only “bar” or “café,” 142 show meals and 64 show concerts or DJs. Home pages read automatically, 40 reread by Scalon on November 6, 2026. Scalon Observatory, November 2026.

- **Meals matter:** 36% show meals or dishes, and only 20% show boards or snacks.
- **So does music:** 16% advertise concerts or DJs.
- **Many present themselves differently:** 15% call themselves a bar-restaurant or brasserie first, and 8% (33 bars) a game bar.
- **One bar in five mainly does something else:** a workshop, shop, campsite, guesthouse or performance venue, where drinks are one activity among others.

In practice: for an offer that assumes a kitchen or a menu, about one in three "unspecified" bars with a website already shows meals. For a drinks or sound-system offer, the bar-restaurant and the music bar are separate targets. Before calling an "unspecified" bar, open its website: a food menu (36% of the 400 sites read), concerts (16%) or a terrace (18%) tell you which offer to bring.

A limit to know: only 14% of the 18,233 unspecified bars have a website, against 31.8% of all observed bars. The measurement holds for them, not for bars without a website.

Caption: one in three bars is a neighborhood bar or café with no specialty shown; bar-tabacs and coffee shops come next. Bars observed on November 6, 2026, type refined from the listing, the name or the registry. Scalon Observatory, November 2026.

Types of bars: headcount, share, share outside any chain, chain bars

| Type of bar | Bars | Share of observed bars | Share outside any chain | Chain bars |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Neighborhood bar or café, no specialty shown | 12,892 | 33.1% | 97.7% | 294 |
| Bar-tabac and PMU | 7,182 | 18.4% | 99.9% | 4 |
| Coffee shop | 4,394 | 11.3% | 90.5% | 416 |
| Beer bar and craft brewery | 2,643 | 6.8% | 91.0% | 239 |
| Bar-restaurant (the operator declares food service, table or quick, as its main activity; codes 56.10A and 56.10C as a benchmark) | 2,634 | 6.8% | 95.2% | 126 |
| Nightclub and club | 1,639 | 4.2% | 99.9% | 2 |
| Wine bar | 1,424 | 3.7% | 99.6% | 6 |
| Pub and Irish bar | 1,384 | 3.5% | 97.0% | 42 |
| Cocktail bar | 1,197 | 3.1% | 99.4% | 7 |
| Lounge and hookah bar | 1,101 | 2.8% | 99.8% | 2 |
| Tapas bar | 804 | 2.1% | 100.0% | 0 |
| Music bar, karaoke and piano bar | 513 | 1.3% | 98.2% | 9 |
| Bar inside a shop (grocery, newsstand…) | 244 | 0.6% | 95.1% | 12 |
| Sports bar and darts | 212 | 0.5% | 98.1% | 4 |
| Guinguette (open-air dance café) | 206 | 0.5% | 97.6% | 5 |
| Beach bar | 133 | 0.3% | 100.0% | 0 |
| Game bar | 125 | 0.3% | 100.0% | 0 |
| Hotel bar | 87 | 0.2% | 98.9% | 1 |
| LGBT bar | 82 | 0.2% | 100.0% | 0 |
| Association-run bar | 72 | 0.2% | 100.0% | 0 |
| Stand-up bar | 29 | 0.1% | 96.6% | 1 |
| Hostess bar | 8 | 0.0% | 100.0% | 0 |

Each type forms a submarket: same suppliers, same equipment, same decision-makers. No page of the Observatory details them yet.

- **Bar-tabacs and PMU bars: 7,182.** Almost all independent (99.9% outside any chain; 4 chain bars). 40.9% of the operating companies are general partnerships (sociétés en nom collectif), against 6% for ordinary bars.
- **Coffee shops: 4,394.** The chain market: 416 are in a chain (9.5%), including Starbucks, French Coffee Shop and The Coffee.
- **Beer bars: 2,643.** 239 are in a chain (9.0%), mostly franchises (My Beers, Au Fût et à Mesure, La Cervoiserie).
- **Bar-restaurants whose operator declares food service first: 2,634.** 95.2% outside any chain, 126 in a chain (4.8%); they sit on the border with the restaurants article.
- **Nightclubs and clubs: 1,639.** 99.9% outside any chain, 2 chain bars; among the companies that publish their accounts, the highest median revenue by format.
- **Wine bars: 1,424.** 99.6% outside any chain, 6 chain bars.
- **Pubs and Irish bars: 1,384.** 42 chain bars (3.0%), including the Wells & Co and O'Sullivans pubs.
- **Cocktail bars: 1,197.** 99.4% outside any chain; 25.9% are in Île-de-France, against 15.7% of all observed bars.
- **Lounge and hookah bars: 1,101.** 99.8% outside any chain; 31.3% are in Île-de-France.

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## Which bar chains exist, and who runs them?

The 50 chains with a confirmed brand bring together 1,170 bars (3.0%). The type of chain points to the likely contact, to be checked: headquarters for company-owned locations, each operator for a franchise, within the rules set by the network.

| Type of chain | Chains | Bars | Examples |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Franchise | 22 | 636 | Columbus Café, My Beers, French Coffee Shop, La Cervoiserie |
| License or concession | 6 | 277 | Starbucks, Delirium Café, Barberousse, McCafé |
| Company-owned locations | 9 | 140 | Noir Coffee Shop, Relais H Café, Cotti Coffee, Wells & Co pubs |
| Group | 5 | 44 | Barrière hotels and casinos, O'Sullivans, Vintage Group, Café Oz |
| Cooperative or label network | 1 | 5 | Bistrot de Pays |
| Type not established | 7 | 68 | The Coffee, Cuvée Noire |

Caption: franchise and license or concession together account for nearly 8 in 10 chain bars. 50 chains, 1,170 bars, read on November 6, 2026. Scalon Observatory, November 2026.

A chain is a franchise when its bars belong to several companies and its public page recruits franchisees. When public sources do not settle it, we write "type not established": 7 chains, 68 bars. We never infer a type without cited public proof.

Here are the top ten bar chains. The last column gives the operator or network head according to the public sources read on November 6, 2026.

| Storefront name | Bars | Type | Operator or franchisor |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Starbucks | 226 | License or concession | Café Sirène France (Alsea group), licensee of Starbucks Corporation |
| Columbus Café | 207 | Franchise | Wagram Food Service, with its franchisees |
| My Beers | 54 | Franchise | My Beers (Drôme) and its franchisees |
| French Coffee Shop | 49 | Franchise | The franchisor French Coffee Shop and its franchisees |
| La Cervoiserie | 37 | Franchise | C10, a network of beverage wholesalers, owner since 2023 |
| Au Fût et à Mesure | 30 | Franchise | AFEAM DEV |
| Orge & Houblon | 29 | Franchise | The franchisor Orge & Houblon and its franchisees |
| Chope et Compagnie | 28 | Franchise | Chope et Compagnie |
| The Coffee | 27 | Not established | Not established |
| Noir Coffee Shop | 26 | Company-owned locations | NOIR COFFEE SHOP SAS |

Starbucks shows that a brand does not have a single operator. In France, the brand is run under license by Café Sirène France, a company of the Alsea group. According to Républik Retail, 120 stores are operated directly, about sixty under license and 70 through franchisees. An offer negotiated at headquarters therefore does not reach every store in the same way.

Columbus Café follows a different logic: the network is 95% franchise-based, with 121 franchisees, according to a March 2026 article from Républik Group. Each café therefore usually has an owner who buys within the framework set by the franchisor.

Coffee shops and cafés make up 64% of chain bars. Among bars proper, the chains are franchised beer bars (My Beers, La Cervoiserie, Au Fût et à Mesure, Orge & Houblon, Chope et Compagnie). Conversely, there are almost no chains among bar-tabacs (4 bars out of 7,182) or nightclubs (2 bars).

A point on method: roasters that run shops (Cofféa, Cafés Richard, 1924) and online coffee shops are not counted as bar chains. Their main business is selling coffee, not serving drinks on site.

## What revenue does a bar make?

### What public statistics say

According to Insee, total revenue of drinking establishments rose 87% between 2016 and 2023. Prices in cafés and restaurants rose only 16% over the period, so the increase is still strong in volume (about +61%). Revenue of the median company goes from €118,880 to €164,750: half of the companies in the sector make less than €164,750 in 2023. Another benchmark, according to EPSIMAS: the sector earns €4.48 billion in revenue in 2024.

### What we measure

Scalon linked each bar to the company that runs it and read the published accounts. Of 14,730 companies whose main activity is drinking establishments (56.30Z), only 531 publish recent revenue: 3.6%. Most bars do not publish their accounts. We keep only fiscal years closed in 2024 or later, with positive revenue.

Of these 531 companies, half make less than €234,868 in revenue a year. The smallest quarter is under €107,731 and the largest quarter exceeds €569,916.

| Company revenue | Share of companies | Share of published revenue |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Under €100,000 | 23.0% | 2.6% |
| €100,000 to €250,000 | 29.4% | 9.2% |
| €250,000 to €500,000 | 19.4% | 12.6% |
| €500,000 to €1M | 13.9% | 19.1% |
| €1M and above | 14.3% | 56.5% |

The table shows where the declared money is concentrated: 14.3% of companies exceed €1M and make 56.5% of published revenue. The top 10 companies alone account for 21.8%.

By format, the difference is large. Among the companies that publish their accounts, median revenue is €940,670 for nightclubs and clubs (41 companies), €200,282 for bar-tabacs (45) and €161,568 for cafés (53). For anyone selling equipment, point-of-sale software or insurance, the account size to aim for is not the same depending on the format.

A cautious reading: the companies that publish their accounts are larger than the average bar. Insee gives €164,750 for the median company in 2023, excluding micro-entrepreneurs, against €234,868 for our base: the two benchmarks cover different years and different sets, and ours over-represents the large operators. This revenue is also the company's, not that of a single bar, when it runs several. We do not rank companies by name: this study gives sizes, not a league table.

Margin and cash position according to Insee

The sector's margin rate (the share of value added left after wages and production taxes) falls from 29.6% to 24.0% between 2016 and 2023, after a peak in 2021 tied to health-crisis aid. Insee explains it mostly by the rise of incorporated companies, where the manager's salary mechanically lowers this rate. The cash position, on the other hand, improves: from 55 to 78 days of revenue on average. A typical revenue figure does not say what an operator earns; this study gives no profit per bar.

## Where are the bars? The territory

Île-de-France has the most observed bars (6,123, or 15.7% of the observed bars), ahead of Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (4,944) and Nouvelle-Aquitaine (3,731). It is also the region where chains weigh the most: 5.1% of bars there are in a chain, and 18.2% are coffee shops.

Bar-tabacs draw a different map: they make up 28.6% of the bars in Normandy and 22.1% of those in Hauts-de-France, against 3.8% in Corsica.

The regions: bars, share of observed bars, share in chains, share of coffee shops, share of bar-tabacs

| Region | Bars | Share of observed bars | Share in chains | Share of coffee shops | Share of bar-tabacs |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Île-de-France | 6,123 | 15.7% | 5.1% | 18.2% | 18.2% |
| Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes | 4,944 | 12.7% | 3.2% | 10.4% | 10.9% |
| Nouvelle-Aquitaine | 3,731 | 9.6% | 3.9% | 11.3% | 14.4% |
| Hauts-de-France | 3,485 | 8.9% | 1.8% | 7.0% | 22.1% |
| Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur | 3,424 | 8.8% | 2.9% | 13.8% | 9.9% |
| Occitanie | 3,315 | 8.5% | 2.7% | 12.2% | 6.1% |
| Bretagne | 2,953 | 7.6% | 1.3% | 6.0% | 21.7% |
| Grand Est | 2,708 | 6.9% | 2.5% | 9.6% | 11.5% |
| Pays de la Loire | 2,362 | 6.1% | 3.0% | 7.0% | 19.9% |
| Normandie | 2,250 | 5.8% | 1.7% | 6.5% | 28.6% |
| Bourgogne-Franche-Comté | 1,570 | 4.0% | 2.8% | 8.6% | 12.0% |
| Centre-Val de Loire | 1,542 | 4.0% | 2.4% | 6.5% | 23.9% |
| Corse | 416 | 1.1% | 0.5% | 7.7% | 3.8% |

Départements of mainland France: observed bars and density

Density counts the bars that received a review on their public listing within the year, per 10,000 residents (reading of November 2, 2026).

| Département | Observed bars | Bars with a recent review per 10,000 residents |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Paris (75) | 3,285 | 15.2 |
| Nord (59) | 1,503 | 5.2 |
| Bouches-du-Rhône (13) | 1,215 | 5.2 |
| Rhône (69) | 1,032 | 5.1 |
| Gironde (33) | 957 | 5.4 |
| Pas-de-Calais (62) | 951 | 5.9 |
| Loire-Atlantique (44) | 877 | 5.6 |
| Alpes-Maritimes (06) | 875 | 7.3 |
| Finistère (29) | 869 | 8.6 |
| Seine-Maritime (76) | 764 | 5.5 |
| Ille-et-Vilaine (35) | 757 | 6.4 |
| Hérault (34) | 756 | 5.8 |
| Morbihan (56) | 733 | 8.5 |
| Var (83) | 707 | 5.9 |
| Isère (38) | 649 | 4.7 |
| Haute-Garonne (31) | 598 | 3.9 |
| Côtes-d'Armor (22) | 594 | 9.1 |
| Haute-Savoie (74) | 581 | 6.4 |
| Calvados (14) | 567 | 7.6 |
| Seine-Saint-Denis (93) | 562 | 2.9 |
| Vendée (85) | 495 | 6.6 |
| Charente-Maritime (17) | 488 | 7.0 |
| Bas-Rhin (67) | 481 | 3.8 |
| Pyrénées-Atlantiques (64) | 477 | 6.3 |
| Loire (42) | 470 | 5.3 |
| Savoie (73) | 464 | 9.9 |
| Seine-et-Marne (77) | 458 | 2.9 |
| Moselle (57) | 451 | 3.8 |
| Maine-et-Loire (49) | 448 | 5.0 |
| Manche (50) | 432 | 8.2 |
| Puy-de-Dôme (63) | 424 | 5.7 |
| Indre-et-Loire (37) | 406 | 6.1 |
| Val-de-Marne (94) | 405 | 2.6 |
| Gard (30) | 404 | 4.8 |
| Hauts-de-Seine (92) | 395 | 2.3 |
| Yvelines (78) | 385 | 2.4 |
| Haut-Rhin (68) | 383 | 4.5 |
| Oise (60) | 380 | 4.1 |
| Somme (80) | 372 | 6.1 |
| Loiret (45) | 367 | 4.9 |
| Vaucluse (84) | 349 | 5.6 |
| Pyrénées-Orientales (66) | 339 | 6.3 |
| Sarthe (72) | 334 | 5.4 |
| Essonne (91) | 319 | 2.2 |
| Saône-et-Loire (71) | 317 | 5.1 |
| Meurthe-et-Moselle (54) | 317 | 4.0 |
| Val-d'Oise (95) | 314 | 2.3 |
| Côte-d'Or (21) | 313 | 5.5 |
| Marne (51) | 305 | 5.1 |
| Dordogne (24) | 304 | 6.8 |
| Eure (27) | 299 | 4.5 |
| Drôme (26) | 282 | 4.9 |
| Aisne (02) | 279 | 4.7 |
| Landes (40) | 276 | 5.9 |
| Ardèche (07) | 262 | 7.2 |
| Doubs (25) | 262 | 4.5 |
| Ain (01) | 259 | 3.4 |
| Haute-Vienne (87) | 245 | 6.2 |
| Aude (11) | 240 | 5.8 |
| Vosges (88) | 233 | 6.0 |
| Vienne (86) | 225 | 4.7 |
| Eure-et-Loir (28) | 223 | 4.7 |
| Haute-Corse (2B) | 220 | 11.1 |
| Yonne (89) | 214 | 6.0 |
| Loir-et-Cher (41) | 210 | 5.9 |
| Mayenne (53) | 208 | 6.3 |
| Allier (03) | 204 | 5.6 |
| Cher (18) | 204 | 6.1 |
| Corse-du-Sud (2A) | 196 | 11.1 |
| Deux-Sèvres (79) | 193 | 4.8 |
| Orne (61) | 188 | 6.3 |
| Charente (16) | 187 | 5.0 |
| Ardennes (08) | 185 | 6.0 |
| Haute-Loire (43) | 178 | 6.8 |
| Aube (10) | 176 | 5.2 |
| Aveyron (12) | 174 | 5.5 |
| Nièvre (58) | 168 | 7.4 |
| Corrèze (19) | 165 | 6.5 |
| Tarn (81) | 162 | 3.8 |
| Hautes-Pyrénées (65) | 155 | 6.2 |
| Hautes-Alpes (05) | 149 | 10.2 |
| Lot-et-Garonne (47) | 141 | 3.8 |
| Cantal (15) | 139 | 8.6 |
| Jura (39) | 135 | 4.8 |
| Indre (36) | 132 | 5.5 |
| Alpes-de-Haute-Provence (04) | 129 | 7.6 |
| Lot (46) | 121 | 6.6 |
| Tarn-et-Garonne (82) | 116 | 4.0 |
| Haute-Saône (70) | 110 | 4.1 |
| Meuse (55) | 93 | 4.4 |
| Gers (32) | 89 | 4.3 |
| Ariège (09) | 86 | 4.9 |
| Haute-Marne (52) | 84 | 4.5 |
| Lozère (48) | 75 | 9.4 |
| Creuse (23) | 73 | 6.0 |
| Territoire de Belfort (90) | 51 | 3.1 |

### Density, and tourist areas

Insee's figures make it possible to compare territories. In 2023, France has 5.4 drinking establishments per 10,000 residents. In the 130 tourist living areas (bassins de vie), density rises to 15.5 per 10,000 residents, three times higher than in other areas. One area in five exceeds 8.5: the Atlantic coast and the mountains, but also rural zones such as the Cévennes or the Morvan.

This rural density hides gaps. 78.6% of municipalities in non-suburban rural areas have no drinking establishment, against 9.2% in dense urban centers.

Our count also gives density by département: in mainland France, 5.4 drinking establishments that received a review on their public listing within the year per 10,000 residents. This 5.4 counts places with a recent review, before the check; it does not measure the same thing as Insee's 5.4 (locations excluding micro-entrepreneurs), even though the two numbers coincide. Paris comes first with 15.2, ahead of Corse-du-Sud and Haute-Corse (11.1), Hautes-Alpes (10.2) and Savoie (9.9). The Paris suburbs bring up the rear: 2.2 in Essonne, 2.3 in Hauts-de-Seine and Val-d'Oise.

Paris and its living area

Within Paris itself, the registry counts 3,251 locations open under code 56.30Z, and we count 3,208 drinking establishments that received a review within the year. Insee's Paris living area spans 440 municipalities, suburbs included, where bars are scarce: measured against that perimeter, it comes to 3.9 per 10,000 residents, below the average.

## Is the market moving? Openings, closures and bankruptcies

### Between 2016 and 2023, the number of drinking establishments grew 4.6%

Bistros are no longer disappearing. After a decline since the late 1990s, their number has risen slightly since the mid-2010s. Insee measures +4.6% between 2016 and 2023, against +9.5% in restaurants. The earlier decline is documented: from 2003 to 2011, mainland France lost about 6,000 bistros, or 15% of the stock (Insee, March 2013 presentation).

For 2024 and 2025, Urssaf counts 22,302 and then 22,402 employer locations, against 19,295 at the end of 2016 (+16%). These series cover neither the same period nor the same scope: they do not join into a single curve.

### Openings, closures and bankruptcies

A count is a stock on a given date. It does not say how many bars closed during the year. The registry does date every opening and closing, though: from October 2025 to September 2026, 4,999 locations were created in the registry, takeovers included, and 4,353 closed. The balance stays positive (+646), as in the previous year (+632). A closure in the registry also counts a bar taken over under a new number.

Turnover is fast. Among bars with an open SIRET number, 17.7% were created less than 2 years ago, and half of the 25,154 bars with an open SIRET number were created after July 2020. In the registry, 9,476 open locations are less than 2 years old. For anyone prospecting, a list more than a year old has already aged.

Insolvency proceedings are rising slightly. At the Bulletin officiel des annonces civiles et commerciales (Bodacc, France's official bulletin of civil and commercial announcements), 1,139 drinking-establishment companies were the subject of an opening judgment between October 30, 2025 and October 29, 2026, against 1,066 a year earlier. More than 3 in 5 are liquidations (710 of the 1,143 judgments; a company can receive several).

## How do you use these figures for a market study?

### Size an addressable market

Start from the target of your offer: the table "How many bars, depending on your question?" gives the figure for each target.

### Segment

Cross format, type and region: 7,182 bar-tabacs are not approached like 4,394 coffee shops.

### Choose a territory

Compare territories by density rather than by volume: 15.2 bars that received a review within the year per 10,000 residents in Paris, 2.2 in Essonne (département table).

### Follow a living market

The market renews itself quickly: a study should be dated and redone. For another market, see [the number of restaurants in France](/en/observatory/number-of-restaurants-in-france).

## How do you build a prospecting list of bars?

A useful list does not start from the registry rows. It starts with the target of the offer, then combines format, structure and region. Four points decide its quality.

1. **Start from bars in operation, not from registrations.** The registry has 1.2 rows per bar in operation. A list pulled from the activity code alone sends mail to addresses that no longer have a bar.
2. **Aim for the owner, by phone.** Bars are small businesses, reached mostly [by phone](/en/blog/b2b-phone-prospecting): 83.5% have a phone number on a public listing or in a business directory, 31.8% a website, and only 3.1% a public email address (as of November 2, 2026): do not build a campaign on it.
3. **Know who you are talking to: the owner or the network head.** For an independent, the contact is the operator. For a chain, it can be headquarters (company-owned locations) or each franchisee: the list must say for each bar whether it is independent or in a chain, which type of chain, and at which company.
4. **Renew.** Nearly 1 bar in 6 (17.7%) opened less than 2 years ago: a one-year-old list misses openings.

On the business side, the legal forms of the companies that run bars vary: 32.6% SARLs (private limited companies), 26.5% sole proprietors, 26.4% SAS (simplified joint-stock companies) and 12.0% general partnerships (sociétés en nom collectif), typical of the bar-tabac (40.9% of its companies). Among bars with an open SIRET number, 67.5% are employer locations. According to Insee, half of drinking establishments have fewer than 1.5 full-time-equivalent employees: managers often serve the customers themselves.

Scalon's [market size calculator](/en/tools/local-tam) helps frame this scope before any order.

Need the list of bars in France? We send it with the contact details available, for the scope you choose.

## Which NAF code applies to a bar?

The NAF code (or APE code) of a bar is 56.30Z, "Débits de boissons" (drinking establishments). The APE code is the main activity code that Insee assigns to each location. On November 2, 2026, 50,266 open locations carry this code in the registry, of which 22,402 are employers at the end of 2025 according to Urssaf.

The nomenclature is changing: NAF 2025 becomes the reference on January 1, 2027, and 56.30Z becomes 56.30Y. In the registry, 49,942 of the 50,266 open locations already carry the new code. All the changes are detailed in [APE code, NAF code: what changes in 2027](/en/blog/naf-2025-code-changes).

A filter on code 56.30Z alone does not rebuild the market. It keeps registrations with no visible activity and it omits bars classified under another code, for example bar-tabacs registered as tobacco shops or places whose listing falls under another category. If you compare two years, check the nomenclature of each.

## Frequently asked questions

### How many independent bars are there in France?

Out of 100 bars observed on November 6, 2026, 97 are independent: outside any chain, franchise or buying group. Insee gives 95% of independent legal units, with a different definition: companies outside any group, franchisees included.

### How many bar chains are there in France?

Scalon counts 50, bringing together 1,170 bars (3%), 636 of them franchised. Coffee shops and cafés make up 64% of chain bars.

### How many bar franchises are there in France?

22 of the 50 chains are franchises, for 636 bars. The largest are Columbus Café (207 bars), My Beers (54) and French Coffee Shop (49). Franchised beer bars (La Cervoiserie, Au Fût et à Mesure, Orge & Houblon, Chope et Compagnie) make up most of the rest.

### How many coffee shops are there in France?

Scalon counts 4,394, of which 416 are in a chain (9.5%). Starbucks is the largest brand, with a brand license held in France by Café Sirène France (Alsea group).

### What is the revenue of a bar?

Half of the 531 bar companies that publish revenue make less than €234,868 a year. Insee gives €164,750 for the median company in 2023, excluding micro-entrepreneurs. The companies that publish are larger than the average bar.

### Why do the figures on the number of bars differ?

Because they count different units: registered locations (registry, 50,266), locations excluding micro-entrepreneurs (Insee, 36,200 in 2023), employer locations (Urssaf, 22,402 at the end of 2025) or bars in operation (Scalon, 41,300).

### How do you reach bar owners?

By phone first: 83.5% of the bars read on November 2, 2026 have a phone number on a public listing or in a business directory. 31.8% have a website and 3.1% a public email address. For chains, the decision can be made at headquarters or at each operator.

## Method

The total comes from the Scalon graph, which brings together, for each location, its records in the Sirene registry, in public business listings and in business directories. Public listings and reviews read on November 6, 2026; Sirene registry as of November 2 for the total. Scope: drinking establishments for on-site consumption (bars, cafés, bar-tabacs and PMU bars, pubs, wine bars, cocktail bars and beer bars, nightclubs, coffee shops); no restaurants, tea rooms or wine shops. Part of the places was reread a second time by Scalon. The calculation gives 41,298 bars, rounded to 41,300, with a cautious range of 36,000 to 42,700. The November 2 version published 34,900: v2 corrects this figure (see the detail below).

Method detail and its limits

**Unit and universe.** The unit is the bar: a place that serves drinks for on-site consumption, identified by its public listing and its SIRET number if any. An operator of three bars counts as three. The universe starts from the 51,386 places in mainland France classified as drinking establishments in public listings and not closed, and from the 50,266 open locations of the registry under code 56.30Z.

**Total.** The total adds three counts: 38,980 bars in mainland France (public places classified as bars, corrected stratum by stratum by the reread share of real bars), 2,093 employer drinking establishments with no public listing found (based on the 22,402 employers from Urssaf) and 225 bars with no employees in the overseas territories. Total: 41,298. The café-tabac stratum (listing of another category) is included. The shares of real bars are 94.3% for places with an open SIRET number, 100.0% with no SIRET number, 93.3% with a closed SIRET number and 73.3% for other categories. Cautious range: 36,000 to 42,700. Variants: 34,908 if all the unsettled places were non-bars (the total published on November 2); 42,954 if they were all bars; 43,335 with no correction at all; 37,195 without coffee shops.

**Why v2 corrects the November 2 figure.** The check of 100 places counted 14 "uncertain" places and 5 with no answer as non-bars. Scalon reread these places one by one, then all 100 places in the check were read a second time, independently, with the same rule: the two readings agree on 91 places out of 100, and Scalon settled the 9 disagreements by applying the rule to similar cases (a tobacco shop under the drinking-establishment code counts as a bar, like a café-restaurant whose listing says café). In total, 93 places out of 100 are bars, and 7 are not (a boat rental, three production breweries with no described dining room, a panoramic restaurant, a wine shop, a tea room).

**Correction of November 9, 2026.** "Independent" used to mean a bar that shares no company, website or storefront name with another: 95%, 37,124 bars. It now means a bar outside any chain, franchise or buying group, the distinction that matters for selling to bars: 97%, 37,835 bars. The 711 bars of operators that run several with no shared storefront name move into the independents; the other figures do not change.

**The 39,005 observed bars.** These are the places whose public drinking-establishment listing is open, with no open restaurant listing, with a SIRET number open on September 24, 2026 (25,154) or a review received between November 6, 2025 and November 6, 2026 (12,603 with no SIRET number and 1,248 with a closed SIRET number, often the former operator). The structure figures cover this base, before correction.

**Check.** A random sample of 100 places from the November 2 version was read with the Claude Haiku 5.5 model (Anthropic): 78 are indeed drinking establishments, 14 cannot be settled, 5 remain unanswered and 3 are a wine cellar, a tea room or a tobacco-newsstand. Scalon reread the 19 unsettled places one by one (see above), and 20 places from the sample a second time, with the same answer 16 times. This check covers the type of place, not the actual activity.

**Type of bar.** The type comes first from the main category of the public listing, sorted into a closed table of categories; otherwise from the words in the name of the place ("tabac," "pub," "jeux"), then from the location's activity code in the registry (food service, tobacco, hotel, association, retail). What remains is a "neighborhood bar or café." The format (bar, bar-tabac and PMU, coffee shop, café, nightclub) comes from the listing category alone.

**Chains and independents.** Bars that share a SIREN number (the French company ID), the domain of their website or a storefront name noted by hand are first grouped together; a chain is one of these groups whose brand is confirmed. A bar is independent if it belongs to no chain: those that share only a company or a website, with no confirmed brand, remain independent. Platforms, social networks, directories, messaging services and website builders are set aside; the structure in this version is read without the email addresses, with 11 more domains set aside. A chain whose bars share no name and no website, or a buying group with no shared storefront name, is not seen: the number of chains is a minimum and the share of independents a maximum. The type of each chain comes from public evidence read on November 6, 2026 (franchisee recruitment page, legal notices, business press); with no evidence, "type not established." Groups are given by public sources and were not traced back to the company registry.

**Revenue.** It comes from the published accounts of the companies linked to bars and whose main activity in the registry is 56.30Z (14,730 companies), with a fiscal year closed in 2024 or later and positive revenue: 531 companies, or 3.6%. 942 accounts at 0, confidential, are set aside. This base is biased toward companies that publish their accounts, which are larger than average.

**Measurement on websites.** Among the 18,233 "unspecified" bars (bar or café), only 14% have a website. We drew 700 websites at random (one per domain) and read the home pages of the 400 that were readable, with the Claude Haiku 5.5 model (Anthropic); Scalon reread 40 a second time: same answer 33 times out of 40 for the type shown, 37 for meals and 34 for entertainment. Across 400 websites, the share of sites that show meals (35.5%) is known to within 4.4 points, with 95% confidence. The other pages were not readable: we did not measure whether their bars differ from the 400 read.

**Cross-checking with public sources.** The totals are compared with Insee, Urssaf, the Assemblée nationale, Bpifrance and EPSIMAS. Openings are the creation dates of locations; closures, the closing dates published by Insee through September 30, 2026. Insolvency proceedings are the opening judgments published in the Bodacc for companies whose head office is classified as a drinking establishment. Density divides the drinking establishments that received a review within the year by Insee's municipal population.

**Rounding.** Shares are calculated on the displayed headcounts and rounded to one decimal; their sum is not always exactly 100%.

**Limits.** A bar present under two listings that the graph has not merged is counted twice; matching by name and postal code can merge two neighbors with the same name. The registry employers with no public listing and the listings with no SIRET number may partly be the same bars: matching by name and postal code has already removed 3,264 of them; if some remain, the total goes down, by 2,093 at most. The total can vary according to the variants above. The commands that replay each figure are kept with the article.

## What to remember

France has 41,300 bars in operation, against 50,266 rows in the registry. 97% are independent, outside any chain or franchise: most sales happen bar by bar. The 50 chains bring together only 1,170 bars, 636 of them franchised, mostly coffee shops and cafés.

For a study or a list, choose the target before the figure, keep the same base from start to finish, and date every reading.

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1. 01How many bars, depending on your question?
2. 02Why does the number of bars vary so much?
3. 03Market vocabulary, in plain terms
4. 04The six levels of reading the market
5. 05Chains, franchises or independents: who runs the bars?
6. 06What are bars really? The types
7. 07Which bar chains exist, and who runs them?
8. 08What revenue does a bar make?
9. 09Where are the bars? The territory
10. 10Is the market moving? Openings, closures and bankruptcies
11. 11How do you use these figures for a market study?
12. 12How do you build a prospecting list of bars?
13. 13Which NAF code applies to a bar?
14. 14Frequently asked questions
15. 15Method
16. 16What to remember

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> Scalon Observatory, "Number of bars in France: 41,300 in 2026," November 6, 2026: 41,300 bars in operation in France (estimate); 50,266 locations open under code 56.30Z in the Sirene registry on November 2, 2026; 37,835 independent bars (outside any chain, franchise or buying group) out of 39,005 observed bars (97%); 50 chains and 1,170 bars, 636 of them franchised. [https://scalon.fr/en/observatory/number-of-bars-in-france](/en/observatory/number-of-bars-in-france)

## Sources

- [Les débits de boissons de 2016 à 2023 : davantage d'emplois, dans des établissements un peu plus grands, Insee Première n° 2123, 29 juillet 2026](https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/9032715)
- [Nombre d'établissements employeurs et effectifs salariés du secteur privé, France entière x APE, Urssaf (données ouvertes)](https://open.urssaf.fr/explore/dataset/nombre-detablissements-employeurs-et-effectifs-salaries-du-secteur-prive-france-)
- [Rapport n° 1026 sur la proposition de loi visant à simplifier l'ouverture des débits de boisson en zone rurale, Assemblée nationale, 5 mars 2025](https://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/dyn/17/rapports/cion-soc/l17b1026_rapport-fond)
- [En Île-de-France, l'accès aux équipements et services s'organise au sein de 58 bassins de vie, Insee Flash Île-de-France n° 79, avril 2023](https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/7457436)
- [Café, bar, bistrot, Bpifrance Création, avril 2024](https://librairie.bpifrance-creation.fr/cafe-hotellerie-restauration/389-cafe-bar-bistrot-9782380760644.html)
- [Présentation des bistrots en France, Insee, 18 mars 2013](https://www.banquedesterritoires.fr/sites/default/files/ra/L%27enqu%C3%AAte%20de%20l%27Insee%20sur%20les%20bistrots%20en%20France.pdf)
- [Le marché des bars en France, EPSIMAS, juillet 2025](https://epsimas.com/marche-bar)
- [Starbucks : le marché français reste porteur, Républik Retail, 10 octobre 2025](https://www.republik-retail.fr/strategie-retail/enseignes/nicolas-thibaudeau-le-marche-francais-reste-porteur-pour-starbucks.html)
- [Starbucks France, conditions d'utilisation (Café Sirène France, groupe Alsea)](https://www.starbucks.fr/terms-of-use)
- [Columbus Café change de recette, Républik Group, 13 mars 2026](https://www.republikgroup.com/articles/2fdbc44e-eeb8-f111-a6a9-6045bdf5ca6d/columbus-cafe-change-de-recette-pour-capter-les-nouveaux-moments-de-consommation)
- [My Beers, devenir franchisé](https://www.mybeers.fr/devenir-franchise/)
- Sirene registry (Insee), Bodacc, public business listings and business directories: read in the Scalon graph on November 2 and 6, 2026.

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