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Good research is honest about its own edges. Here is exactly what Hillcane's coffee shop audits do not prove.

The visibility score behind this post is not one vague number pulled out of thin air.

A lighter check across the Northeast found the same basic pattern seen in the Southeast.

Structured data gaps aren't even across the Southeast. A Carolinas secondary corridor runs behind the rest, and a few other geographic patterns stand out.

In most secondary cities, the drive through chains everyone worries about barely have a footprint. The real competitor was never the chain.

We looked at 413 organic search results across 52 cities, and only a tiny handful actually lead to a cafe's own website. Listicles, visitor bureaus, and forums own that search instead.

Seventy four percent of the coffee shops we looked at run on Squarespace, Shopify, Square Online, or Wix.