The Creamery

What The Creamery does

The Creamery is a privately held for-profit bistro and coffee shop located in the SOMA district of San Francisco, United States. According to the available description, it operates as an all-day, all-week establishment serving customers from the morning commute through after-work drinks, positioning it as a daytime-to-evening café and bistro concept aimed at local office workers and neighborhood patrons in San Francisco's SOMA area.

The firmographic record indicates a headcount in the 101-250 employee band, which is notably large for a single bistro/coffee shop and suggests either a multi-location operation or a sizeable hospitality footprint with substantial hourly service staff and back-office support. However, no specifics on number of locations, menu, pricing, daily covers, or unit economics were extractable — the company website returned only a loading/verification page during data collection, and the structured record contains no revenue, funding, customer, partnership, leadership, or product data. As such, the business model can only be described at a high level as an in-person food and beverage retail operation monetizing through on-premises consumption and likely takeaway sales, with no disclosed technology, digital platform, or proprietary systems. The investment-relevant picture is therefore limited to firmographic basics and a single-location/geographic descriptor; deeper operating, financial, and strategic detail is not available from the provided source material.

Name

The Creamery

Website

https://thecreamerysf.com

Company type

Private

Headcount range

101–250 employees

Short description

The Creamery is a privately held SOMA bistro and coffee shop in San Francisco that operates all day, every day, serving morning commuters and after-work patrons with daytime café and evening food and beverage offerings.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Casual Dining Restaurants

NAICS

Snack and Nonalcoholic Beverage Bars (722515), Restaurants and Other Eating Places (72251), Limited-Service Restaurants (722513)

SIC

Retail-Eating & Drinking Places (5810), Retail-Eating Places (5812)

akta.pro primary industry

Dessert Cafes & Dessert Bars (Sit-Down) (THAFAGAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Dessert Cafes (Coffee + Desserts) (THAFADAH), Cafe-Bakeries (Coffee + Pastry Focus) (THAFADAG), Espresso Bars & Coffee Bars (THAFADAD), Cafe-Bakeries (Bakery + Coffee/Foodservice) (THAFAFAG)

Keywords

• Casual dining restaurant
• Coffee shop service
• Breakfast and brunch
• All-day bistro
• Food and beverage

Headquarters

HQ city

San Francisco

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Supply Chain, Operations, Infrastructure

Core offering

The Creamery operates a SOMA bistro and coffee shop in San Francisco that is open all day, every week, serving customers from morning commute through after-work drinks. The venue combines coffee service with bistro-style food and beverage offerings for walk-in neighborhood patrons across both daytime and evening dayparts.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Bistro and Coffee Shop Service SOMA-based bistro and coffee shop service in San Francisco, operating all day, every week, serving customers from the morning commute through after-work drinks. The offering combines coffee service with bistro food and beverages for walk-in neighborhood patrons across daytime and evening dayparts.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Direct peers

• Tartine Bakery: Iconic San Francisco bakery and cafe serving coffee, pastries, and light fare at sit-down locations. Highly comparable cafe-bakery format in the SF market, with overlapping coffee + pastry value proposition.
• Philz Coffee: Bay Area-born specialty coffee chain with multiple San Francisco cafes serving coffee, tea, and light bites. Comparable as a multi-location SF coffee operator with extended hours and food-adjacent menu.
• Sightglass Coffee: San Francisco-based specialty coffee roaster and cafe operator with multiple locations emphasizing coffee and light food. Comparable as a SF-based cafe concept serving coffee-plus-food in a sit-down environment.
• Saint Frank Coffee: San Francisco specialty coffee roaster and cafe in Russian Hill serving coffee, pastries, and light food. Comparable as a SF single-origin coffee + food cafe concept.
• Blue Bottle Coffee: Oakland-born specialty coffee company with a strong San Francisco cafe presence, including all-day coffee and light food service formats. Directly comparable as a specialty cafe operator in the same Bay Area market.
• Réveille Coffee Co. San Francisco cafe operator with multiple locations serving coffee, pastries, and breakfast/brunch fare. Closely comparable cafe-bistro daypart model in the same SF market.

Broad incumbents

• La Colombe Coffee Roasters: Multi-city specialty coffee roaster and cafe operator with draft latte and cafe concept. Comparable as a scaled specialty coffee-cafe operator, though broader geographic footprint than a single-SF concept.
• Starbucks: Global coffee and foodservice giant with multiple SOMA-adjacent locations. Relevant as a broad incumbent that sets the competitive baseline for foot traffic, pricing, and operating hours in the same SF geography.

Emerging players

• Verve Coffee Roasters: California-origin specialty coffee roaster with cafes in LA, San Francisco, and Tokyo. Comparable coffee + light food cafe format, though historically more LA-centric than SF-centric.

Regional players

• Jane on Larkin: San Francisco all-day cafe and bakery in Lower Pacific Heights serving coffee, pastries, and bistro fare. Comparable cafe-bistro hybrid format in the SF market.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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