Starbucks
As a Seattleite, it is only fair that I compare Starbucks per capita.
Seattle versus Madison
To compare, I needed to obtain data:
- Populations of the city based on 2006 United States Census:
- Number of Starbucks located in a five mile radius of the city center (based on zip codes) using the Starbucks Store Locater:
- Starbucks Store per person:
- Additionally, for comparison sake, there are 15 times more Starbucks in Seattle than in Madison!
- Seattle 582,174 people in the greater Seattle area
- Madison 223,389 people in the greater Madison area
- Seattle (98109) 104 Starbucks Stores
- Madison (53726) 7 Starbucks Stores
- Seattle 1:5,597
- Madison 1:31,912
In conclusion, Starbucks stores are much more frequent in Seattle than in Madison. I could do this same type of analysis again and compare all coffee shops between cities per capita and the ratio might still look like that. The joke that there is a coffee shop on every street corner in Seattle is, yes, very true. But we Seattlites are proud of this! We need to have our streets densely populated with coffee shops in order to keep up our energy for the day… fueling our addictions! Actually, that being said, I am a tea drinker opposed to a coffee monger.
Now I shall leave you with two final questions:
What kind of business is on every street corner in Madison?
Does it outnumber Seattle?
Make your suggestions and I’ll research it for you.
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