Oregon Coffee Fun Facts

In honor of national coffee day, here are some fun employment facts about the much-loved Monday morning pick-me-up:

• Coffee shops -- along with ice cream parlors, smoothie shops, and other similar businesses -- are classified in the "snack and nonalcoholic beverage bars" industry. This industry had roughly 1,100 establishments in Oregon in 2013.

• Employment statewide for the coffee shops et al. industry totaled 10,300 in 2013.

• Baristas are classified as "counter attendants, cafeteria, food concession, and coffee shop." Oregon had 9,400 of them in 2012.

• The U.S. made the top 20 list of countries in terms of per capita coffee consumption in 2013, with an average of 0.93 cups per day.

• Hawaii is the only state in the U.S. that grows coffee beans on a broad, commercial scale.