If you’re like me, you begin each day with a cup of coffee. It’s actually not an improbable assumption, given that 68% of coffee drinkers (and I assume you’re one of them) have a cup within the first hour of waking up.
When we first wrote this article in 2013, there were 52,684 coffee shops in the US alone. Now, in 2015, that number has grown to 53,987. And, according to Statista, the number of coffee shop businesses is still growing. Next year, in 2016, we’re looking at a grand total of 55,246 coffee shops.