Dutch Bros Holds Eight Drive Thrus Across the Tri Cities

Thomas Garner

Oct 7

11 min read

Aerial view of Kennewick neighborhoods along the wide Columbia River in the Tri Cities, Washington

Photo: formulanone from Huntsville, United States, CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Dutch Bros operates four drive thrus in Kennewick, two in Pasco, and two in Richland, eight total across the three cities that make up the Tri Cities. That count comes straight from Dutch Bros' own city by city locator pages, checked separately for each city rather than pulled from one combined regional number.

This piece closes out this cluster's map of Tri Cities coffee by putting the chain layer in its proper place: real, confirmed, city specific counts, kept honest and kept separate from Yakima, Walla Walla, and Spokane, three real cities near the Tri Cities that do not belong folded into this metro's own numbers.

None of this is a ranking or a verdict on independent coffee in this metro. It is a plain, sourced accounting of one chain's real footprint, city by city, kept separate from the neighboring metros that sometimes get confused with the Tri Cities.

Dutch Bros itself is a real, well known part of how coffee moves across this stretch of eastern Washington, and naming its actual footprint accurately, city by city, is a useful closing companion to the independent shop map this cluster has already built out block by block.

Four in Kennewick

Dutch Bros' own Kennewick locator page lists four locations in the city, at 3918 Clearwater Avenue, 731 N Columbia Center Blvd, 4305 W 27th Pl and a downtown stand at 3 W Columbia Dr. Four is the count for Kennewick specifically, drawn directly from that city's own locator page rather than estimated from a broader regional total.

The downtown Kennewick stand is worth noting on its own, since 3 W Columbia Dr sits close enough to West Kennewick Avenue that a broad search for coffee in that part of downtown could reasonably surface it alongside the two independent cafes at 101 and 604 W Kennewick Ave. That overlap is a normal, expected part of how search works in a compact downtown corridor, not a reflection on any of the businesses involved.

Four locations in one city is a real, meaningful chain presence, the kind that shapes how a drinker in Kennewick thinks about quick, convenient coffee options day to day. That presence exists alongside, not instead of, the independent coffee shops already mapped elsewhere in this cluster, on West Kennewick Avenue and on Gage Boulevard.

Any of the four Kennewick addresses, on Clearwater Avenue, Columbia Center Boulevard, West 27th Place, or West Columbia Drive, reflects a distinct part of the city, further evidence that even a single national chain does not simply plant one location and call a city covered. Kennewick alone supports four separate Dutch Bros stands, spread across its own street grid.

None of this makes downtown Kennewick's independent shops less relevant, it simply describes the full, honest coffee landscape a Kennewick resident actually navigates day to day, chain and independent options both, each with its own real place on the map.

Two in Pasco, Two in Richland

Pasco's own Dutch Bros locator page lists two locations in the city, at 2601 Court Street and 6609 Burden Blvd. Richland's own locator page also lists two, at 496 Keene Rd and 490 Wellsian Way. Both counts come directly from each city's own dedicated locator page, checked separately rather than combined into one regional figure.

That city by city approach matters because Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland are three distinct cities within this one metro, and treating Dutch Bros' presence as a single combined Tri Cities number would blur exactly the kind of geography this whole cluster has worked to keep clear. Four in Kennewick, two in Pasco, two in Richland: three separate counts for three separate cities, adding up to eight total drive thrus across the metro.

It is worth sitting with just how different two locations feels compared to four. Pasco and Richland each carry half the drive thru density that Kennewick does, a real, specific difference in how visible this one chain is city by city, rather than something that would show up in a single averaged Tri Cities number.

None of this diminishes either city's own coffee identity. Pasco still has a cafe at 9425 Sandifur Pkwy Suite 105 and Swagg Coffee Bar's locations on N 20th Ave and Broadmoor Blvd. Richland still has Novel Coffee Co at 950 George Washington Way. Two Dutch Bros drive thrus in each city exist alongside those local anchors, not in place of them.

West Richland Is Its Own Fourth Count

Dutch Bros also operates a location in West Richland, a city separate from Richland proper, at 6429 Keene Rd. That West Richland location is its own, fourth city count, and it is not folded into Richland's two locations or added into the eight total across Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland.

Keeping West Richland separate here mirrors exactly how this cluster has treated it elsewhere, as its own distinct city of 17,126 residents in the 2023 Census estimates rather than an extension of Richland's 61,912. Swagg Coffee Bar's own room at 1472 Bombing Range Rd follows the same logic: West Richland gets counted as itself, not quietly merged into a neighboring city's total.

This same logic extends to how a reader should think about any regional coffee count going forward. A number that looks impressive at the metro level can hide real variation at the city level, and West Richland's own single location is exactly the kind of detail a combined figure would quietly erase.

A reader encountering a claim about Dutch Bros in West Richland elsewhere should treat that claim with the same scrutiny this piece applies here: is it counted as its own city, or has it been quietly folded into a neighboring total. Precision on this point is small, but it is exactly the kind of precision that keeps a regional coffee accounting trustworthy.

Not Yakima, Not Walla Walla, Not Spokane

Dutch Bros' own statewide Washington locator page counts 74 locations in the state and lists separate city counts for Yakima and Walla Walla, cities near the Tri Cities but genuinely distinct from it, along with a much larger count in Spokane, a separate metro entirely. None of those counts belong folded into this piece's eight total for Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland.

Yakima and Walla Walla are real cities with their own coffee scenes worth their own separate treatment, and Spokane is its own major metro further north. Keeping all three explicitly outside the Tri Cities count is a direct extension of the same geography lock that has run through this entire cluster: this metro is Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland, and nothing else gets folded in to inflate the number.

A quick comparison makes the scale differences clear. Spokane's nine locations reflect a much larger metro market entirely outside the scope of these posts. Yakima's three, at 2105 S 1st St, 305 N 1st St and 6520 W Nob Hill Rd, and Walla Walla's two, at 1731 Isaacs Ave and 630 S 9th St, sit closer in size to individual Tri Cities city counts, but both remain their own separate cities with their own separate coffee scenes.

This is also worth stating for anyone tempted to combine Tri Cities and Yakima into one broader eastern Washington coffee story. Yakima's own three Dutch Bros locations belong to Yakima's own coffee landscape, distinct from and unconnected to the Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland count described here, even though the two metros sit within driving distance of each other.

What the Maps Snapshots Actually Showed

Two separate, dated Maps snapshots exist for Tri Cities coffee searches, captured a day apart with slightly different wording. The September 14, 2026 snapshot, for best coffee shops in Tri Cities WA, surfaced three independent places, two in Kennewick and one in Pasco. The September 15, 2026 snapshot, for coffee shop Tri Cities WA, surfaced a different set of three independent places. Not one place appeared in both.

Neither snapshot should be treated as a fixed, permanent three pack for this metro, and the two should never be averaged together into one combined picture. They are two separate, dated captures that simply returned different sets of places, a reminder that Maps results shift by time, wording and location in ways no single business fully controls. No Dutch Bros stand appeared in either set of three, which says more about how those two particular queries were worded than about the chain's reach.

That instability in the Maps snapshots stands in useful contrast to the Dutch Bros locator counts described above. A chain's own city by city locator pages are a stable, first party source, checked directly rather than inferred from a shifting search snapshot, which is why the eight drive thru count deserves more confidence than either Maps snapshot.

This is also a useful reminder that not all data sources carry the same weight. A chain's own locator page, checked directly, reflects a real, current, first party count. A search engine's map pack, seen once on one day, reflects whatever that engine's ranking systems happened to surface at that specific moment, for that specific search, from that specific location.

It is worth naming precisely why two different snapshots would return two different results in the first place. Search engines personalize and vary results based on factors like the searcher's exact location, the device used, and the moment the query was run, all of which can shift a map pack's contents even for what looks like the same basic search intent.

Chain Context, Not a Verdict on Independents

None of this is meant as a verdict on how independent coffee shops in the Tri Cities compare to a national chain's convenience or reach. It is simply an honest, sourced count, told the same way every other Hillcane piece on the Tri Cities has told its facts: city by city, address by address, without inflating or collapsing the real geography involved.

The chain layer also sits inside a much bigger state picture. Seventy four Washington locations, per Dutch Bros' own statewide page, spread across cities from Spokane to Yakima to Walla Walla, and only eight of them fall inside Kennewick, Pasco and Richland. Naming the Tri Cities share by city keeps that statewide number from swallowing the local one.

Eight drive thrus spread across three cities is a real, meaningful chain presence in the Tri Cities, and naming that presence plainly, without inflating it and without folding in West Richland, Yakima, Walla Walla, or Spokane, is exactly the kind of precision this entire cluster has tried to model. Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland remain three separate poles, each with its own named streets, its own named independent shops, and now, its own confirmed Dutch Bros count.

For an independent Tri Cities coffee shop, understanding exactly where and how a chain like Dutch Bros operates nearby, four stands in Kennewick, two in Pasco, two in Richland, is simply useful context, the kind of honest picture that helps a shop understand its actual local landscape rather than either overestimating or dismissing the chain's presence.

The full picture is worth holding onto as a whole: two independent cafes at 101 and 604 W Kennewick Ave, a cafe at 9425 Sandifur Pkwy in West Pasco, Novel Coffee Co at 950 George Washington Way in Richland, Swagg Coffee Bar across Pasco and West Richland, Flying X Coffee at 8530 W Gage Blvd, and Dutch Bros' own eight drive thrus layered across all three cities. Together, that is the Tri Cities told city by city rather than as one flattened metro.

For anyone who has followed this cluster from the beginning, that closing list should feel familiar rather than new. It is the same geography this cluster opened with, each city, each street, each shop, now simply completed with the chain layer that sits alongside all of it.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many Dutch Bros locations does each Tri Cities city have?

Kennewick has four, Pasco has two, and Richland has two, according to Dutch Bros' own city by city locator pages fetched on September 16, 2026, for a combined total of eight drive thrus across the three cities of this metro. The Kennewick four sit on Clearwater Avenue, N Columbia Center Blvd, W 27th Pl and W Columbia Dr.

Is there a Dutch Bros in West Richland too?

Yes, at 6429 Keene Rd, but it is counted separately as its own fourth city, since West Richland is a distinct city of 17,126 residents in the 2023 Census estimates. It is not folded into Richland's two locations, at 496 Keene Rd and 490 Wellsian Way, or added into the eight total for Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland.

Are the Maps snapshot results for this metro stable?

No. Two dated snapshots, taken on September 14 and September 15, 2026 with slightly different wording, each surfaced three independent places, and not one place repeated between them. The first leaned on two Kennewick places and one in Pasco. Neither should be treated as a fixed three pack, and the two are never averaged together.

Does this piece combine Yakima, Walla Walla, or Spokane into the Tri Cities Dutch Bros count?

No. Yakima has three Dutch Bros locations and Walla Walla has two on their own locator pages, and Spokane, a separate metro, has nine. None of those figures are folded into the eight total for Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland, just as Yakima's 96,810 residents and Walla Walla's 33,766 are never added to the Tri Cities population either.

Where is the downtown Kennewick Dutch Bros?

Dutch Bros operates a downtown Kennewick stand at 3 W Columbia Dr, one of the city's four locations on its own locator page. It sits close enough to West Kennewick Avenue, where independent cafes stand at 101 and 604 W Kennewick Ave, that it could appear in broad searches for coffee in that part of downtown.

Is the eight location count a single combined metro figure?

No. It is the sum of three separate city counts, four in Kennewick, two in Pasco, and two in Richland, each read directly from Dutch Bros' own dedicated locator page for that city on September 16, 2026. West Richland's one stand at 6429 Keene Rd and the statewide total of 74 Washington locations are both kept outside that eight.

Does this piece grade or fault any independent Tri Cities coffee shop?

No. This piece is strictly chain context, an accounting of Dutch Bros' own city by city drive thru counts: four, two and two across Kennewick, Pasco and Richland. Local shops appear only by name and street, such as Novel Coffee Co at 950 George Washington Way, with no commentary on any shop's performance or marketing.

Why does it matter that the two Maps snapshots are not averaged together?

Because averaging the September 14 and September 15, 2026 snapshots would create a result that never actually appeared in either real search. The two queries were worded differently, one asking for best coffee shops and one for coffee shop, and each returned its own set of three places. Each is treated as its own dated data point.

Is Dutch Bros' locator data more reliable than the Maps snapshots?

The locator data deserves more confidence, since it comes directly from Dutch Bros' own first party locator pages, one each for Kennewick, Pasco and Richland, with street addresses printed on every page. A Maps snapshot, by contrast, can change between one day and the next, as the September 14 and 15 snapshots showed when they returned two entirely different sets of three places.

What is the main takeaway from this Dutch Bros count?

That Kennewick, Pasco, and Richland each carry their own distinct Dutch Bros presence, four, two, and two respectively, out of 74 Washington locations statewide. This metro's chain layer, like its independent coffee scene on West Kennewick Avenue, Sandifur Parkway and George Washington Way, is best understood city by city rather than as one flattened regional number.

Work with Hillcane

Dutch Bros runs four drive thrus in Kennewick, two in Pasco, and two in Richland, eight total. Not Yakima, not Walla Walla, not Spokane, and not one combined number.

If your Tri Cities coffee shop wants clear, honest context on the chain layer around it, reach Hillcane at hillcane.co/contact or call (256) 384-2449.