It’s hardly a new insight that the number of Starbucks coffee shops a neighborhood boasts correlates with the socio-economic status of the ‘hoods inhabitants. But a pair of Sun-Times writers revive the debate over the desirability of Starbucks in a couple of opinion pieces this past week.
Mark Konkol introduces the notion of the “Starbucks quotient” (the number of Starbucks in a given zip code) and explores how closely that number is tied to a neighborhood’s “hotness.”
In response, the Sun-Time’s politics and law reporter, Abdon M. Pallasch, defends his “Venti-Caramel-Macchiato-free” neighborhood.
