mother tongue coffee
Mother Tongue Coffee runs 5 products across 1 category, stocked in 2 of 24 Bay Area grocers. Its biggest footprint is coffee, at <1% of the shelf. A niche presence · Brand Power 14/100.
Shelf presence
Brand Power (0-100) blends four shelf signals. Price position is shown below for context · a value↔premium read, not part of the score.
carried in 2 of 24 Bay Area grocers. how many stores stock the brand.
5 products in the catalog. how deep the product line is (saturating).
spans 1 category · 2 subcategories. how many categories the brand plays in (saturating).
Where it owns shelf
each bar is the % of that category's SKUs that are Mother Tongue Coffee (full bar = 100% of the shelf), grouped by department.
Top competitors
the brands crowding the same categories as Mother Tongue Coffee · photographed shelf-mates first, then brands stocked beside it at the same grocers, then same-category rivals citywide.
Most similar brands
closest to Mother Tongue Coffee in what it makes — matched on product name, category & description across the whole catalog, wherever they’re sold. Not who it competes with on the shelf.
The lineup
the full Mother Tongue Coffee lineup · on SF shelves first (cheapest first), then SKUs we've catalogued but haven't measured on a shelf here yet.
Sold at
Where to find Mother Tongue Coffee · Bay Area
3 storefronts across 2 grocers carry it · tap a pin to open the store.
Opportunities
New doors · no Mother Tongue Coffee in our capture yet
Bay Area grocers where neither the digital catalog nor our shelf photos show Mother Tongue Coffee· but the shelf it belongs on is already there, ranked by fit. Fit blends category coverage, rival presence, price-band match, and openness to independents at this scale; weigh the footprint chips and route notes against it · a 7-door chain and a single great shop are different prizes. Our capture is partial, so a widely-distributed brand may already be carried through channels we don’t index.
Lead with Mother Tongue Coffee Bittersweet Coffee Blend · its most-distributed SKU (2 doors) in Whole Bean Coffee, the biggest opening. The closest open door is LeBeau Nob Hill · 5 rivals already on that shelf.
