We’ve currently have 4 Dunkin’s here in town plus a Honey Dew, McDonalds, a Mary Lou’s, and every mini-mart sells coffee, and there are several breakfast restaurants too. Fresh coffee is also served at at least 2 grocery stores. I don’t drink coffee so there may be more places I don’t know about.
I’m not sure how to turn that into a percentage, but over the past 20 years coffee has definitely grown to exceed alcohol sales.
Town of 1400. Everyone pretty much has theirs before leaving the house. I guess gas stations have coffee.
OK, this WAG turns out to have been quite an underestimate. For China as a whole, coffee imports exports and production, surprisingly, account for 0.1% of GDP (14 billion USD / 14 trillion USD).
In Shanghai it should be an even larger proportion, but I can’t find comprehensive and up to date figures.
Just an FYI. We could argue at length about the validity of their methodology, but – as first-pass evaluations go – I found it interesting:
WalletHub - Best Coffee Cities in America
Drinking a cup of French Press La Colombe Nizza as we speak. Yum.
Self-serve coffee at our town’s one gas station, and then we kind of have a restaurant that’s basically open whenever the manager feels like it, probably not on Sunday if she has religion that week. They’ll pour the coffee for you there.
So maybe 1-2 percent?
Massive here in Bristol, UK. We have a huge independent restaurant and cafe scene, so it’s less about Starbucks and more about Aunt Jillie’s mean beans and the like. Including lots of independent roasteries.
Starbucks failed to take a substantial hold* here in Australia due to its pre-existing coffee culture fending it off. I don’t think coffee dominates all that much more here than anywhere, but it’s comfortably prevalent.
*You might find one or two scattered about a bit, mainly for tourists who like to play safe.
In my town of Hoboken, NJ, (pop 53,000 1.5 area sq mi) there are 3 Starbucks, 7 Dunkin’s, 2 Choc o’ pains, 2 bwè kafes, and at least a dozen other coffee shops. That doesn’t include all the bars and restaurants that also serve coffee.
Coffee is a not-insignificant part of the Las Vegas economy; it often seems that is difficult to be anywhere that you cannot see a coffee shop.
Heck, a good friend of mine owned one here for a few years.
My town has about 25K residents. We have a Starbucks and 2 Dunkin Donuts. I don’t count gas station/7 11 coffee since it’s not the main product of those fine establishments.