Where are all the Dunkin' Donuts?

I must be bored without Kelly around. Anyway, another musing of mine along the lines of Boston versus Chicago. In my former town of Somerville, there are eight Dunkin' Donuts. That's one for every 9,500 residents. Its also one for every half a square mile. Boston, itself has 72 shops, or one for every 8000 residents and 0.67 square miles. (Even more impressive is Chelsea with seven locations; one per 5,000 residents and one per 0.3 square miles!) Sure looks like Bostonians like their donuts and sickeningly sweet coffee.

Oak Park has 52,000 residents (thats 25,000 fewer than Somerville) packed into about the same 4.5 square miles. How many Dunkin Donuts do you think are here? Exactly one, and it sits right on the city limits. If we're really feeling the need for DD, we can always wander just over the city line (two venues in Forest Park and Chicago), but of course that was also true in Somerville.

I'm not sure if there's any great conclusion to draw from this analysis, and its not like Oak Park is short of coffee and donut shops, but it really was quite noticeable when we first moved here that there weren't Dunkin' Donuts on every street corner like we were used to seeing in Boston. Of course, we have one more Chipotle than all of New England combined and that's something to be thankful for.

-Brian