What burger chain reigns supreme?
In a follow up to his McDonald's map, Stephen Von Worley of Weather Sealed maps the dominating burger chains across the United States. McDonald's obviously has a stronghold in a lot of areas but not all of them. Most noticeable is Sonic Drive-in with over 900 restaurants in Texas alone. Personally, I'm rooting for Carl's Jr. and In-n-Out.
[via We Love Datavis]
Five Guys or death!
@Robert – i had to look that one up, and i have to say – i am intrigued.
I love Five guys as well, but I hate this expansion they’re doing. The Five Guys outside of DC just don’t have the same taste or quality and it’s a shame to see them throwing away there standards for a buck. But alas, that’s how life goes.
It is a nice looking graphic, but that is about it. I have worked as a consultant providing location analysis for national retailers . An explanation of methodology would be nice. Mentioning an inverse square law is not methodology. I am pretty sure there are some very simple (and probably invalid) assumptions, but it would be nice to know exactly what they are.
The way to get In-N-Out to show up on the map would be to show customer loyalty as opposed to merely the presence of stores. Then California would brightly glow with the In-N-Out color.
Why are Hardee’s and Carl’s Jr. separate colors? They’re the same chain, branded differently in different parts of the country.
Is McDonald’s the default?
Yeah, McDonald’s is represented by black circles, but I think there are spots in the midwest where it’s just nothingness.
This is very cool, but I wish that either McDonalds or the ocean was colored something other than black. Being able to see the country borders would be nice.
Why would McD’s be black in the first place? It makes it look like there are McD’s covering every square mile of the US.
it does :)
ding, we have a winner
Give that man a cigar…look at the link in the article about “McDonald’s map”. The take your ADD meds…