While the UK is famed for its love of tea, figures from NPD Group suggest there is an increasing chance that your cafe furniture will be occupied by breakfasting coffee-lovers.
Despite the recent - and still ongoing - turbulent economic times, the analyst says coffee shops in the UK are thriving, as Britons continue to develop a taste for high-quality coffee.
Between 2009 and 2012, visits to coffee shops during breakfast time increased by an average of 9% per year, and now breakfast accounts for a fifth of all eating out, with visitor numbers up by more than 25 million per year since 2009.
Throughout the day, coffee shops are seeing more visitors, with a 3.5% increase in customers consuming their beverage or snack on-premises between 2011 and 2012.
"In short, coffee shops have become a destination in themselves; time-pressed and quality-obsessed consumers increasingly see visits to coffee shops as a perfectly acceptable way to spend time with friends and family," NPD Group reports.
Young adults and women in particular are driving the trend, with the analyst's figures showing a 4.3% year-on-year rise in female coffee shop customers in 2012, and a hefty 12% increase in visits from people aged 18-24.
Interestingly, while cafe furniture in the UK is increasingly being occupied by java junkies, the same cannot be said elsewhere in Europe, where visits to coffee shops are waning.
In Italy, by far the biggest European market for high-quality coffee outlets, visitation fell from almost 5.8 million customers in 2011 to less than 5.4 million in 2012.
The UK's coffee shop market rose from 1.99 million to 2.02 million in the same period - a relatively small increase, but one that overtakes that German market, which fell from 2.04 million to 1.96 million in 2011-12.
Spain also now lags behind the UK coffee shop segment, falling from 2.09 million visitors in 2011 to 1.97 million in 2012, although France is still some way ahead, having dropped from almost 2.5 million customers in 2011 to just over 2.4 million the following year.
With clear and consistent growth now limited solely to the UK, however, investment into more comfortable cafe furniture could be crucial if coffee shops are to continue to build market share - and equally important for traditional tea rooms looking to buck this trend.