What Food, Beverages & Tobacco Shopify Stores Actually Use
The themes and apps of Food, Beverages & Tobacco stores in our dataset of 3,500,000+ Shopify stores — from live scan data, refreshed daily.
Food, Beverages & Tobacco Shopify stores in our dataset run a distinct mix of themes and apps. Below are the most-used themes, the most-installed apps, and the average app-stack size for Food, Beverages & Tobacco stores — all from live storefront detection, not self-reported data.
Food, Beverages & Tobacco stores by the numbers
Food, beverage and tobacco stores live on repeat purchase and trust. Shoppers buy things they consume and run out of, so the winning stores make reordering effortless and reassure buyers about taste, quality and freshness before the first order. That shapes the tools these brands reach for more than the look of any single theme.
Across our live scans of Shopify food and drink stores, the theme choices stay mainstream and conversion-focused, led by Dawn, Horizon, Prestige and Impact. The app stack is where the category shows its hand: Klaviyo for email sits at the very top, three separate reviews apps rank in the top six, and Recharge for subscriptions places higher here than in most verticals, because coffee, snacks and other consumables sell on subscribe-and-save. Everything below reflects software actually installed on these stores, not survey data.
Our take: a few things stand out in the food and beverage data. First, this is an email-and-repeat business: Klaviyo leads the app stack and Recharge ranks high, which shows how much of the category runs on subscriptions, so a consumable brand that nails email and subscribe-and-save compounds every reorder.
Second, reviews are non-negotiable: Judge.me, Loox and Yotpo all sit near the top, because taste and quality are hard to judge online and social proof does the convincing.
Third, the theme layer stays deliberately safe: stores lean on fast, proven, conversion-tested themes and spend their real effort on the app stack and on photography that makes the product look good. If you run a food or drink store, copy that order: get email, subscriptions and reviews right first, keep the store fast, and let the imagery sell the taste.
Most popular Shopify themes for food, beverages & tobacco stores
| # | Theme | % of stores | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Dawn |
16% | |
| 2 | Horizon |
5.2% | |
| 3 | Prestige |
3.5% | |
| 4 | Impact |
2.4% | |
| 5 | Shrine PRO |
2.3% | |
| 6 | Impulse |
2.2% | |
| 7 | Minimog OS 2.0 |
2.1% | |
| 8 | Ella |
2% | |
| 9 | Kalles |
1.8% | |
| 10 | Broadcast |
1.7% |
Most installed Shopify apps on food, beverages & tobacco stores
| # | App | % of stores | Usage |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Klaviyo
Email Marketing |
40.2% | |
| 2 |
 Judge.me Product Reviews App
Product reviews |
37.1% | |
| 3 |
 Recharge
Subscriptions |
19.7% | |
| 4 |
 Loox ‑ Product Reviews App
Product reviews |
19.5% | |
| 5 |
 Countdown Timer
Countdown timer |
13.3% | |
| 6 |
 Yotpo
Product reviews |
12.1% | |
| 7 |
 Rebuy Personalization Engine
Checkout - Other |
11% | |
| 8 |
 Gorgias
Support - Other |
8.7% | |
| 9 |
 Triplewhale
Analytics |
7.8% | |
| 10 |
 PageFly ✦ Landing Page Builder
Page builder |
7.6% |
What food, beverages & tobacco stores sell
- Beverages 27.6%
- Food Items 3.5%
- Tobacco Products 0.3%
- Cannabis Products 0.2%
How food, beverages & tobacco stores operate
- Subscription 22.4%
- Wholesale / B2B 4.8%
- Multichannel & Marketplaces 4.4%
- Dropshipping 3.1%
- Print on Demand 1.6%
How this data works
Every figure comes from live detection: we scan Shopify storefronts, read the theme and apps each one actually runs, and classify the store by product category and business model. We report what is currently detected, not historical installs or Theme Store download counts.
Independent by design: rankings are determined solely by live detection data. Affiliate relationships never affect what ranks or how stores are counted. Read the full methodology →
