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Article: Caffeine fiends.(surveys on consumption of speciality coffee)
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- Prepared Foods
- Article date:
- June 1, 2006
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According to the Specialty Coffee Association of America (SCAA), American consumers enjoy more than 300 million cups of coffee every day, with Starbucks likely seeing the bulk of this business, considering its 7,800 U.S. locations are hard to miss. However, a Columbia News Service report notes, "The number of specialty coffee retailers has tripled over the past decade. An estimated 14,000 cafes now dot the American landscape, not to mention the 3,300 coffee kiosks open for business and the 2,500 coffee carts parked in malls."
These establishments combined for more than $11 billion in sales in 2005, says the SCAA, a rise of more than 14% over the previous year. ...