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MissingWhiskey t1_izzatce wrote

You can tell where the Interstates are out west.

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langfordw t1_izzbb7p wrote

Very high correlation with “people.”

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skodaddy426 t1_izzbfm9 wrote

Other than the absence of Dunkin’ in the Pacific Northwest I am not sure I see any significant differences. What am I missing?

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ortolon t1_izzc0l9 wrote

Let's see Jack in the box. From what I gather they may be more heavily western than the rest of these.

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DaveinOakland t1_izzckmt wrote

I have never actually walked into a Dunkin Donuts in my entire life.

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DavidWalton06 t1_izzeqsb wrote

Congratulations. You made a map of the distribution of people.

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ZetaZeta t1_izziyn7 wrote

The lack of Dunkin in the northwest is interesting.

You poor souls. No wonder Starbucks even exists.

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hiking907 t1_izzjiq3 wrote

Nice collection of r/mapswithoutalaska

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thearchiguy t1_izzjn76 wrote

Bring Dunkin Donuts to the 5 missing states in the Northwest!!! 🍩 My friends always ask me to bring DD back when I go travel.

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Intentionally_stupid t1_izzjrnd wrote

Was genuinely surprised that there are more subways than McDonald’s out there until I remembered that there’s almost always a subway inside Walmart

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jimmyrich t1_izzjxpv wrote

Replying to MaverickJW (#916,166)

Yeah the "biggest fast food" chains are going to all be pretty similar. I'd be curious about the slightly more regional chains--Jack in the Box, Waffle House, Hardees v. Carl's Jr, Sonic. Is Chik-Fil-A everywhere now?

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anarchoandroid t1_izzoutt wrote

Starbucks so dense in cities, and propagating virtually nowhere else.

As predicted in Colorado. All the way up and down i-25 from Ft. Collins to Denver to Colorado Springs. And starting in Denver headed west along i-70. and virtually nowhere else.

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blacktothebird t1_izzqgn4 wrote

what coffee chain is in middle of the country

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2475014 t1_izzrlh6 wrote

The only information you can get from this is that Dunkin isn't in the northwest. Other than that, this is really just population heat map and is pretty useless.

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SunDevilSkier t1_izzshs9 wrote

There is one Dunkin in Utah according to Google and it is on the air force base.

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Tristal t1_izzt5tu wrote

I refuse to call any place without a drive-thru fast food.

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_owlstoathens_ t1_izzuxae wrote

What about combination Pizza Hut/Taco Bell’s?

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funkycoral t1_izzwi0t wrote

I feel bad for the people that have a subway instead of a Taco Bell

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WillingPublic t1_izzz4qy wrote

Replying to scarcerarity (#916,243)

True. If you do a plot of Taco John locations in the USA, however, you will see a map of where people don’t live in the country. I love Taco John BTW, but they only seem to be in very isolated places.

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caputviride t1_j001mb8 wrote

Would be more interesting to see the smaller chains that aren’t nationwide to see the gaps. For instance, I live up in New England and have never seen a Carl’s Jr. or Jack-in-the-box anywhere near me. Same goes for a Long John Silvers but that’s more understandable due to our already existing delicious seafood.

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Fuck_You_Andrew t1_j003fml wrote

Im not sure why Subway doesnt have a worse reputation. Even the poorest towns in the country have one.

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Uuuurrrrgggghhhh t1_j003ifn wrote

Replying to Tristal (#916,841)

This was an existential moment for me.

You’re right. I was thinking that walking in is usually faster food BUT realised this only works where the place has a busy drive thru. Hmmmm

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esgrove2 t1_j003tra wrote

All of those places have terrible food lately. They keep decreasing the quality like we won't notice. It's not even worth it anymore.

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ZeR0Ri0T t1_j004b8r wrote

Hi, really nice charts! Just a quick question - Are the location densities per square km? Like is subway 24.33 locations/km^2 ?

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mydoglikesbroccoli t1_j0053wg wrote

I know it nearly overlays with population distribution, but the north south line of what I presume is the Mississippi River seems really stark (damnyouautocorrect). I haven't checked a map but I wonder if companies assumed east of Mississippi River for population rather than consulting the actual population distributions.

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jordangrant0 t1_j005hmw wrote

Contrasted to areas people make homemade meals.

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itstommygun t1_j006grn wrote

“Biggest” as in the number of locations, I’m assuming.

Because I’m pretty sure CFA would be in there if it was gross sales.

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Willie-Alb t1_j007zkx wrote

Why not a map or the more regional chains? This is literally just a population density map

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houseman1131 t1_j008f48 wrote

Had dunkin donuts once. Wasn't that impressive.

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Best-Adhesiveness-63 t1_j00czpl wrote

It is suprising to see Dunkin in 3rd despite seemingly serving the smallest area of the lot.

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Mamapalooza t1_j00g01c wrote

How does Burger King even exist?

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Frogmarsh t1_j00g0my wrote

Density? Density is samples (objects, units) per area. These maps do not in any way depict density.

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jeremiah1142 t1_j00hjzd wrote

Get the fuck with it Dunkin’, FUCK - sincerely, i hate Starbucks

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IdealIdeas t1_j00hy6w wrote

Huh, thats interesting that there are almost 2x more subways than mcdonalds.

I also would have thought burger king and taco bell would be higher up and closer to mcdonalds

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flyingcircusdog t1_j00jh9x wrote

I would really like to see this for traditionally regional chains, like in n out or waffle house.

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Veliaphus t1_j00kon8 wrote

These dots are huge. There is only like 2 pizza huts in vt but the whole state is almost covered.

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Yacob-S t1_j00mpuy wrote

that guy on tiktok made me love subway again

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wheezy1749 t1_j00ns21 wrote

Replying to 2475014 (#916,793)

Not only that. It uses blobs that tell you nothing about the density. At least color regions with more darker and regions with less lighter. This is so ugly.

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KmartQuality t1_j00nvmq wrote

I've never been to a Dunkin donuts.

Also, the colorful dota are too big.

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JarvisDargon t1_j00o4kg wrote

Now add 5g towers and covid deaths!

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K_H007 t1_j00p9gz wrote

Replying to MultiplyAccumulate (#917,152)

Look closely and you can see that the same thing happens with Domino's and Wendy's in terms of a density dip. Heck, pretty much the only two of the nine that don't are Subway and McD's.

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Starblast22 t1_j00pzzc wrote

i read fart food chains so i think i need to take a moment

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MaverickJW OP t1_j00tqta wrote

Replying to ZeR0Ri0T (#917,300)

No, the number ist just the amount of locations they have in the US. Since I’m from Europe I‘m using „.“ as a separator for thousands instead of „,“ ^^

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bestem t1_j00upq0 wrote

Comparing this locally, in my small city we have

  • 4 Subways
  • 1 McDonalds
  • 0 Dunkin Donuts
  • 2 Taco Bells
  • 4 Starbucks (and an additional 3 inside of grocery stores and Target)
  • 1 Burger King
  • 0 Pizza Huts (well, sometimes Target sells mini Pizza Hut pizzas in their food court, but I don't think they count because they don't have the full menu, or deliver, plus 9/10's of the time I've been there recently the food court has been closed)
  • 2 Domino's
  • 0 Wendy's

Subway has always surprised me with how many of them exist. I find it interesting how similar and how different the local distribution is to the national distribution of said fast food places.

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MyDickIsMeh t1_j00w1tk wrote

The only thing I got out of this is that to the Dutch we're the VSA.

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uno_ke_va t1_j00xb57 wrote

Can someone explain me why subway is so popular? I've eaten 2-3 times there, and every time I find it quite... lame

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InterMando5555 t1_j00yq1c wrote

This would be more interesting if they showed more regional restaurants.

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Medcait t1_j012g2x wrote

Thank god there aren’t any Dunkin Donuts where I live. Worse shit ever.

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Ebroon t1_j012xze wrote

Peak r/PeopleLiveInCities content

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Octahedral_cube t1_j019bca wrote

As a lot of people pointed out this is basically a population map. But since you have the data already, could be useful to work out the deviance for each franchise. For example, if Dominos usually has a restaurant per 500 people, but in Texas it has 1 restaurant per 50 people that is very significant and interesting.

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TotallyNotMeDudes t1_j01h7aw wrote

My only regret is moving to Oregon is the lack of Dunks.

Apparently there was a grip of them here about 20 years ago because every time I mention it someone says “oh, there’s still one on Main St the next town over.”

No, there fucking isn’t. I’ve followed every lead anyone has ever given me and there isn’t a single Dunks here.

I moved out here 15 years ago and the only Dunks I’ve had since then is in Vegas and The Philippines.

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Good_Smile t1_j01h8nk wrote

It's so hard to find Wendy's and Pizza Hut it's crazy

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DetroitLionsSBChamps t1_j01i35n wrote

Actually surprised Pizza Hut and dominos are so prevalent. I live in one of the areas with 100% coverage and I can’t remember the last time I saw one

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dtoxin t1_j01iei3 wrote

If each dot represents a location, it’s the size of Connecticut. Makes it seem like there is far more locations than there really is.

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cowboy_dude_6 t1_j01jsf9 wrote

“I’ve discovered that people tend to live in cities” —OP

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newbris t1_j01jwom wrote

Replying to bestem (#918,383)

For comparison, in my medium Australian city (2.5m) we have:

  • 108 Subways
  • 113 McDonalds
  • 0 Dunkin Donuts (They shut all Australian stores in late 2000's)
  • 10 Taco Bells
  • 13 Starbucks
  • 51 Burger King
  • 45 Pizza Huts
  • 97 Domino's
  • 0 Wendy's
  • and 84 KFC
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Ortizjohn18 t1_j01l1xe wrote

Might be interesting to see the spread of the next 9 or so biggest chains. As a company becomes a bit smaller I bet we could see more regionality. Then it would be more interesting to compare them to each other.

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Scovers t1_j01m3cc wrote

Is it possible to make the points smaller? Each one being what, 50 miles across, makes it a little messy.

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Uncle-Cake t1_j01vdaw wrote

Oh look, another population density map!

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peterskurt t1_j01vzsm wrote

It would be interesting to do a difference between Wendy’s and Burger King somehow.

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scutum99 t1_j02neoi wrote

The only place where I'd occasionally buy something is Starbucks. Tea and coffee are a healthy commodity (albeit expensive at Starbucks). You can also work on your laptop or read while listening to pleasant jazz music in the background.

However, the other ones just sell junk food of the worst quality, smell of fried oil, and are stressful with loads of people rushing. I don't want to get diabetes, thank you.

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AyyLMAOistRevolution t1_j02q0re wrote

Replying to womenworshipmod (#918,029)

Maybe Dunkin disputes the outcome of the 1846 Oregon boundary question so they don't view the Pacific Northwest as "America". Maybe they agree with Britain's claim that Canada's southern border should run along the 42nd parallel.

Has Dunkin's corporate PR ever addressed these allegations that I just made up??

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FederalistIA t1_j0313mz wrote

People live in cities is a subreddit for things like this. People eat food, people live in cities.

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Macrophage87 t1_j03rzwr wrote

No Dunkins in the Pacific Northwest?

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lgoldfein21 t1_j03uucq wrote

This data is not beautiful??? It’s just 9 population density maps??

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SendAstronomy t1_j040xfu wrote

The east coast is truly a wall of Subways from end to end.

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heyuhitsyaboi t1_j0vc7s2 wrote

Nevada is what really seems sparse to me, more so than wyoming

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