Americans like coffee. Americans like coffee so much that they consume billions of dollars worth of it per year. And that’s just at large chains like Starbucks. The amount of coffee consumed in America is more than the coffee consumed than in any other country in the world. It is the mostly widely consumed drug in America, and the world at large.
There are many statistics about coffee that are worth noting in this article. Some concern the behaviors of male coffee drinkers versus female coffee drinkers. Some of them concern the industry as a whole or at large. Some concern the difference between chain coffee shops like Starbucks and smaller, independent coffee shops. They are as follows.

• The retail value of the U.S. coffee market is estimated to be $48 billion dollars with specialty com