Which coffee chain do you actually order from the most?

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Starbucks — Runs 41,000+ stores across 80+ countries and pulls in $37.2B a year, serving roughly 100 million customers every week

Dunkin' — Its 10,000th US store opened in 2025, making it just the 4th chain ever (after McDonald's, Starbucks, and Subway) to hit five figures

Dutch Bros — Drive-thru only, no dine-in seating, yet 19 straight years of same-store sales growth and revenue up nearly 30% in 2025

McCafe — Euromonitor ranks it the world's 3rd-largest coffee-shop brand by store count, riding on McDonald's sheer scale rather than cafe culture

Costa Coffee — Coca-Cola bought it for $4.9B in 2019; it's now the UK's biggest coffee chain, sold in nearly 40 countries

Tim Hortons — Once controlled 62% of the Canadian coffee market versus Starbucks' 7%; it's less a chain than a national identity

Peet's Coffee — Opened in Berkeley in 1966, five years before Starbucks existed; the original Starbucks founders trained under its founder

Panera — Tried offering truly unlimited coffee and tea refills via a subscription, then had to cap it at one drink a day after people took it too literally

7-Eleven — Not even marketed as a coffee shop, yet it's the 4th-largest coffee seller in the US and has been pouring cups since 1964

Local or independent shop — Where third-wave, specialty coffee culture lives, deliberately outside the chains entirely

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