U.S. metros ranked by retail bakeries per 10,000 people

Evergrey · #1 Posted: **Apr 2, 2007, 4:57 PM**

http://www.swivel.com/graphs/image/9...6690578793888?

brickell · #2 Posted: **Apr 2, 2007, 6:06 PM**

There doesn't seem to be much rhyme or reason to why, but when Cleveland out paces Phoenix and Atlanta by almost 3 times you have to wonder what the reasons are.

NYC seems obvoius. You might argue that the more "urban" a place is the more friendly it is towards small independent stores. That doesn't seem to exactly fit the statistics either.

Maybe it's an ethnic thing.

Avian001 · #3 Posted: **Apr 3, 2007, 4:11 AM**

OMG! Bakeries!

Are you are making a link between fat Americans and their cities perhaps???

seaskyfan · #4 Posted: **Apr 3, 2007, 4:17 AM**

Finallly a meaningful ranking!

Evergrey · #5 Posted: **Apr 3, 2007, 4:30 AM**

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Originally Posted by Avian001

OMG! Bakeries!

Really, who the hell cares?

Unless you are making a link between fat Americans and their cities perhaps???

yeah! NY and San Fran are known for having an astronomically high percentage of obese people!

brickell · #6 Posted: **Apr 3, 2007, 6:01 AM**

I love the random statistics. Keep them coming.

fflint · #7 Posted: **Apr 3, 2007, 8:45 AM**

^Well, I've got to admit I've never seen a stat like this one before--can't say I even thought about this subject before.

And just for the record, for tonight's dinner--the first since my partner returned from his trip to LA--we enjoyed, among other things, a fantastic artisan sourdough half-loaf from Grace Baking Company. Picked it up at Safeway for 3 bucks--no big deal. I highly recommend.

sprtsluvr8 · #8 Posted: **Apr 3, 2007, 9:34 AM**

Is Krispy Kreme being included as a bakery? How bout Dunkin Donuts?

PDX City-State · #9 Posted: **Apr 26, 2007, 12:04 AM**

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How bout Dunkin Donuts?

That would put Boston at number one.

This is a great statistic...however I can't for the life of me see a correlation.

CodyY · #10 Posted: **May 1, 2007, 5:10 AM**

This is the strangest ranking I have ever seen on this site.

Jeff_in_Dayton · #11 Posted: **May 2, 2007, 10:50 PM**

I can understand why Cleveland would outpace Phoenix.

Cleveland is an old neighborhood city, where is probably a local tradition or custom of local food purveyors like bakers/pastry shops, butchers, and so forth.

So I think this might be a good ranking of citys that might have either a strong culinary interest in artisan baking, big citys of any type, and citys with a strong tradition of neighborhood bakeries (even if these might be in the suburbs now).