Customers vote by purchasing special red or blue coffee cups printed with each candidate's name. The cups are scanned at check-out and automatically entered in this unscientific, but surprisingly accurate poll—in and , the number of coffee cup votes and the number of actual popular votes for both candidates was only off by 1 or 2 percentage points.
While 's 7-Elections results were still correct, they gave the election to Obama by a landslide—60 percent to 40 percent—when the margin was really only about 7 percent. The trend continued in , as caffeine addicts went blue to the tune of 59 percent for Obama to 41 percent for Romney, while the actual vote wound up being 51 percent to 47 percent.
That's the convenience store in Springfield owned by Apu Nahasapeemapetilon. Instead, they had a Duff Energy Drink with a label very similar to the animated brew. But in other parts of the world, the shops are a lot more important to the local population.
In Indonesia, for example, 7-Elevens are more like a hip, upscale coffeehouse where 65 percent of customers are under the age of The stores offer free Wi-Fi, plenty of tables and chairs inside and out on the sidewalk, and often feature live musical performances. Young people gather there late into the night to socialize, work online, and eat local favorites like fried rice, tiny sandwiches filled with cheese or chocolate called pillow bread, and chicken katsu, a Japanese-style fried cutlet.
In Taiwan, 7-Elevens are more common than Starbucks in Seattle. In the capital city of Taipei, there are more than locations in a city of 23 million, with many city blocks capable of sustaining more than one location. Isai Rocha Aug 11, It wasn't until that the store started keeping its doors forever open, kind of by accident.
Other 7-Eleven stores soon followed suit, and the rest is history. We Deliver! Food News. This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. Related Topics.
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