Most people like coffee. In some places, the making and drinking of it seem to be the economic backbone, which is asking a lot of a hot drink. What percentage of your local economy is coffee based?
My relative in Chatham Ontario was pondering the same question today while we we’re chatting as she waited on her Lowe’s pickup order. She marveled at the long lines at Starbucks. It’s been a long pandemic year in Canada for those finally venturing out.
I think they might sell coffee at one of the two gas stations but it has to be close to 0%
Yeah, except for to-go sales at the Shit n’ Git, coffee has very little economic impact here. There’s no Starbucks or similar joints.
Our economic engine runs on a popular regional soft drink manufactured locally, cows and tobacco.
We do have a hemp research facility located a few miles down the road from me, but I don’t think the workers are much into coffee.
It seems to be a growth industry here. I’d guess maybe 20% at the moment. The gas stations, donut shops and grocery stores are among the few open places. 
My particular town (a suburb of Chicago, a bedroom community with a population of about 20,000) doesn’t have a Starbucks. We do have two coffee shops (one across the street from the commuter train station, and one in the train station), and a couple of restaurants which specialize in breakfast (and, thus, serve a lot of coffee). So, probably, a smaller percentage than in other places – there are at least five Starbucks, and a couple of Paneras, in the towns around us.
The operating budget for our little city works out to somewhat over $3,000 for each resident, and the budget for our school district is about 2/3 of that. That isn’t even counting any commercial businesses.
You’d have to drink a hell of a lot of coffee to even move the needle.
The last I heard there were more pot shops than Starbucks in Denver so I’d guess coffee is a pretty low %.
I’m in a town of 50,000. I googled my town and the word coffee and started counting the coffee houses, cafes, and donut shops and gave up at 100. I guess it’s so high because we’re a college town.
~40k population. Three (I think) Dunkin’ Donuts and two Starbucks, plus several gas stations that sell coffee. And gods only know how many restaurants. Minus however many are still shut down because of Covid.
The shit n get.
I actually laughed. In fact I think some beer just went into my nose.
I’ve lived in all sorts of places and the ‘coffeeist’ cities/regions I’ve lived in area Nor-Cal and Osaka, Japan.
Huge in Portland, along with beer and pot.
Can confirm, I live in the NorCal area and it feels like every tenth store is a Starbucks / Peet’s / Philz / indie hipster / Asian coffee shop, not even mentioning restaurants that sell coffee on the side.
Now back to the OP, the “percentage of your local economy” is an ambiguous question — in my area, if measured purely by number of dollars it is probably a small fraction (~ 1 - 1.5%?), but if going by percentage of brick-and-mortar businesses it is considerably higher than that, as I noted in my anecdote above.
Never lived in Portland but visited, and I can attest to that. Lots of coffee and beer. Pot wasn’t quite legal when I was there
Starbucks is headquartered here. Along with a lot of smaller local, regional, and national coffee people.
Amazon is also headquartered here, which dwarfs everything else as a percentage the local economy.
According to Tripadvisor, there are 264 cafes and coffee shops in Tel Aviv, with a population of some half a million people. I’d guess that roughly a third belong to the major local chains (although not Starbucks - we don’t have that here). It’s a fairly healthy cafe culture, although again, I can’t tell you how the pandemic impacted it.
I think Israeli coffee shops generally serve more (and better) food than American ones do, though.
No matter what search term I enter in Google Maps, it shows me the closest Stsrbucks.
Wellington New Zealand. A very strong cafe / coffee culture here. Just inside the railway station alone there are three different shops making coffee. “Hole in the wall” and caravan style coffee shops are very common.
Places like this are common and don’t necessarily show up in a Google search, though this one does.
We have Starbucks but people tend to turn their nose up at it a little. You would have coffee at a Starbucks if there was no other choice, usually there’s another choice.
Coffee is massive here in Shanghai, both the big chains and local coffee houses.
Places that do well are Instagram-able; either having cool decor or gimmicky drinks.
As a percentage of the economy though, perhaps a few micro-percent? (10^-6)%