To celebrate the nation’s affection for the great British cuppa and National Tea Day today, Premier Inn has spoken to tea-loving Brits across the UK to find out which city drinks the most tea, and to settle one of the most important debates of all time - what’s the perfect strength of tea?
When it comes to the UK cities that prefer a stronger brew, it’s Liverpool that’s leading the pack, and here’s how the different UK cities compare:
1. Liverpool 71%
2. Southampton 70%
3. Belfast 69%
4. Sheffield 68%
5. Leeds 68%
6. London 67%
7. Nottingham 66%
8. Manchester 64%
9. Edinburgh 63%
10. Brighton 63%
11. Bristol 62%
12. Birmingham 61%
13. Plymouth 60%
14. Cardiff 60%
15. Newcastle 59%
16. Norwich 54%
17. Glasgow 47%
So how much tea do we actually drink? The research revealed:
• We consume 205 million cups of tea every day
• The amount of tea Brits drink in a year would fill 50,000 swimming pools. If you laid those swimming pools back to back they’d stretch for 1,250 km which is roughly the same distance from London to Vienna
• In London, 25.9 million cups of tea are enjoyed every day so in a year that would be enough tea to fill up the Big Ben Clock Tower 500 times
• At our 750+ Premier Inn hotels, we plough through a huge 14.6 million tea bags each and every year
• On average, people in Glasgow drink the most tea each day and over a third (35%) drink at least five cups a day
• One in seven people in Edinburgh said cup number one on our tea chart would be the perfect strength for them
• A quarter of people in the UK drink at least five cups of tea every single day