Pumpkin Spice, Apple and Caramel Flavors Dominate Food and Beverage Franchise Menus
Beverage and food brands across franchising have ushered autumn in early with new seasonal menus. It’s been pumpkin spice season at Dunkin’, for example, since Aug. 19. Dunn Brothers Coffee (above) also wasted no time releasing its new fall menu on Aug. 18, featuring fan favorites ranging from espresso beverages to baked goods and breakfast sandwiches.
Strong demand for pumpkin spice has made it a billion-dollar industry, according to Research and Markets. But pumpkin spice – a combination of spices typically used in pumpkin pie such as cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, ginger and allspice – isn’t the only highlight of these seasonal menus. Apple, caramel, maple and other autumnal ingredients add to the festive flavor lineup, giving franchise brands plenty of opportunities to get creative – and boost sales.
Below is a compilation of seasonal menu items and limited time offers to enjoy this fall.
Fall 2026: Seasonal Menu Items and Limited Time Offers
7 Brew
7 Brew recently dropped its fall lineup. Fans of the coffee franchise can enjoy the Original Pumpkin Blondie Breve, Drizzled Apple 7 Brew Energy Frozen Chiller, Caramel Apple Pie Macchiato, Apple Butter Chai and Pumpkin Roll Shake.
Aroma Joe’s
Aroma Joe’s is bringing back the fan-favorite Poppin’ Pumpkin Latte through Nov. 1. The fall drink features pumpkin spice flavor and a drizzle of salted caramel topped with guests’ choice of cloud top or whipped cream and finished with candy-like popping sugar that snaps and fizzes with every sip.
Caribou Coffee
Caribou Coffee is getting in on the pumpkin spice fun with new beverages and food offerings. These include the pumpkin white mocha, pumpkin espresso shaker, iced white mocha with pumpkin cold foam, pumpkin latte, pumpkin crafted cold brew, pumpkin chai latte and pumpkin Caribou cooler blended beverage. Guests can also try the pumpkin cream cheese muffin.
CC’s Coffee House
CC’s Coffee House is celebrating the fall season with new pumpkin-flavored treats. Highlights of the coffee franchise’s new seasonal menu include pumpkin pie and caramel apple pie flavors, which come in Mochasippi, cold brew, iced latte and hot latte options, and pumpkin chai and marshmallow matcha drinks. CC’s is also bringing back the pumpkin spice crumble cake, featuring pumpkin flavor with notes of cinnamon, sugar and cloves. These seasonal menu items are available through Nov. 3.
Chicken Salad Chick
Chicken Salad Chick, a fast-casual chicken salad restaurant concept, has released new limited-time offerings: Nashville Hottie chicken salad, the brand’s spiciest menu flavor to date, and pumpkin spice cake. This seasonal release is part of the brand’s annual fundraising campaign to support CURE Childhood Cancer.
Dunkin’
Dunkin’ recently revealed a little-known sixth member of the Spice Girls: “Pumpkin Spice,” who allegedly left the popular band formed in the 1990s to pursue her passion for lattes. Comedian Rachel Dratch plays Pumpkin Spice in Dunkin’s new commercial. She joins real-life Spice Girls Emma Bunton, aka Baby Spice, and Geri Halliwell-Horner, known as Ginger Spice, as they share Dunkin’ pumpkin spice latte drinks to show that some passions – and seasonal flavors – don’t go out of style.
Dunkin’ released the spot to promote its new fall menu, which features the Pumpkin Cloud Dunkalatte, Pumpkin Pie Coffee Chiller, Pumpkin Patch Cloud Latte, Nutty Pumpkin Protein Latte, pumpkin doughnut and pumpkin MUNCHKINS Donut Hole Treats.
Dunn Brothers Coffee
Fall is brewing at Dunn Brothers Coffee. The Minneapolis-based coffee company is welcoming fall with the caramel apple dirty soda, pumpkin pie latte, iced brown butter pumpkin shaken cold brew, pumpkin spice muffin, and maple waffle chicken sausage breakfast sandwich.
Einstein Bros. Bagel
Einstein Bros. Bagels is combining new fall discoveries and nostalgia by bringing back the pumpkin bagel and pumpkin shmear for the first time in seven years. Guests can also try the new $3 pull-apart bagel and shmear in two seasonal flavors, pumpkin crunch and cinnamon sugar.
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Jeff’s Bagel Run
The new seasonal menu from Jeff’s Bagel Run is available through Nov. 1. Guests can enjoy a pumpkin bagel, pumpkin spice cream cheese, vegan pumpkin spice cream cheese, maple brown sugar cream cheese, maple spice latte, and pumpkin spice cold foam cold brew.
MilkShake Factory
MilkShake Factory, a family-owned dessert franchise known for its handspun milkshakes and small-batch chocolates, is bringing back its pumpkin pie milkshake through Nov. 8. The seasonal treat blends pumpkin puree, cinnamon and fall spices, and is finished with a crunchy graham crust.
Paris Baguette
Paris Baguette is reimagining fall favorites with its new seasonal menu. The Pumpkin Streusel Tart puts a fresh spin on a classic dessert, featuring a rich pumpkin spice filling topped with buttery streusel and a sweet icing drizzle. The Pumpkin Spice Cruffin is a flaky croissant muffin loaded with pumpkin spice filling, topped with pumpkin icing and pumpkin seeds. Paris Baguette started pumpkin spice season a bit early by releasing these limited time items on Aug. 26.
Parlor Doughnuts
Parlor Doughnuts is welcoming the harvest season with a new lineup of limited-time flavors. Menu highlights include pumpkin chai cheesecake, cherry coconut pie, pumpkin pie latte and Bourbon butterscotch pear.
Perkins Restaurant & Bakery
Perkins has been celebrating pumpkin season for 60-plus years, according to FSR magazine. Fans can elevate the breakfast experience by ordering the maple bacon pumpkin platter, pumpkin pancake platter, potato pancake stacker platter (above), pumpkin mammoth muffin and pumpkin pie. The brand wasted no time getting into pumpkin spice season by releasing these items on Aug. 26.
Playa Bowls
Playa Bowls’ Jacked 4 Pumpkin menu pairs nostalgic fall flavors with superfruit-forward ingredients. The Happy Pumpkin açai bowl, apple cinnamon crunch bowl and banana cream pumpkin pie smoothie are the stars of this seasonal menu.
Randy’s Donuts
The new fall menu at Randy’s Donuts features the pumpkin cake with cream cheese, a pumpkin spice cake doughnut topped with cream cheese icing and pumpkin cake crumbs; the pistachio crumb raised, featuring pistachio flavored icing and pistachio-infused butter crumbs; and the cinnamon crumb raised, a glazed raised doughnut topped with cinnamon crumbs. Seasonal beverages include the pumpkin pie latte, Café Pumpkin and pistachio latte.
Rita’s Italian Ice & Frozen Custard
Rita’s Italian Ice & Frozen Custard is getting into the spirit of the fall season by bringing back pumpkin and apple butter-flavored creations for a limited time. These seasonal menu items include pumpkin frozen coffee, pumpkin pie concrete, apple butter milkshake and apple butter concrete.
Smoothie King
Smoothie King has introduced its nutrition-forward pumpkin lineup, which includes the Slim-N-Trim GLP-1 Pumpkin Smoothie. The limited-time beverage delivers more than 23 grams of protein, 9 grams of fiber and 0 grams of added sugar. Other items on the fall menu include D-Lite Pumpkin, Coffee High Protein Pumpkin and Power Meal Pumpkin.
Sunny Street Café
Sunny Street Café is giving breakfast a pumpkin spice-flavored makeover. Guests can start their day with pumpkin spice doughnut holes, pumpkin chai cold brew, pumpkin roll muffin, pumpkin pancakes (above) and apple cider mimosa.
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf
The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf has pumpkin spice-flavored beverages at participating locations for a limited time: pumpkin iced latte with cream cap, pumpkin dry iced Americano, pumpkin extreme ice blended drink and iced pumpkin hojicha (a Japanese roasted green tea) latte.
TOUS les JOURS
Beginning Oct. 1, TOUS les JOURS is adding the pumpkin spice spiral croissant, vanilla pecan spiral croissant, sweet potato Danish, pumpkin matcha cloud cake and pumpkin cheesecake to its menu. These seasonal items are part of its Halloween collection.
Travelin’ Tom’s Coffee
Travelin’ Tom’s Coffee, a mobile coffee franchise, is embracing fall with new menu items. The pumpkin pie beverage blends spiced pumpkin, vanilla and cinnamon, and the Spiced Apple Chai-der is a cozy fusion of spiced chai and apple cider.
Vicious Biscuit
Vicious Biscuit, a popular breakfast franchise, has added its app-exclusive Old Country Reboot to its broader menu. The Southern breakfast bowl combines potatoes, fried chicken and maple sausage gravy topped with two eggs cooked over medium, or to preference, and finished with black pepper and chives. Other items returning to the menu include caramel apple beignets (above) and the pumpkin spice latte.
Ziggi’s Coffee
Pumpkin is now available across multiple product categories at Ziggi’s Coffee, including returning favorites, new beverages, seasonal bread slices and a kid-friendly option. Fans of the coffee franchise can indulge in the pumpkin pie latte, pumpkin pie shaken espresso with sweet cream cold foam, iced chai with pumpkin cream cold foam, pumpkin chocolate chip bread and gluten-free pumpkin bread.
