How the Thin Mint Crumbles
Crunching the numbers of Girl Scout cookie sales in Central Austin
Fri., Jan. 22, 2016
Number of Girl Scout troops in the Midtown Service Unit, which covers most of Central Austin: 60
Number of Girl Scouts in the Midtown SU: More than 650
Number of Girl Scouts in Midtown SU who sell cookies: About 400
According to Kim Haddad, the Midtown Service Unit cookie coordinator, the number of boxes of cookies these 400 girls sold in 2015: more than 58 thousand boxes (down from about 70 thousand in 2014 and 2013)
Where the money goes for each $4 box of cookies:
$1.70 to council programming
99 cents to Little Brownie Bakers (one of two national licensed Girl Scout cookie bakers)
26 cents to council administration
43 cents to service unit
40 cents to troop
22 cents to development/outreach/fundraising
Most popular cookie booths in Central Austin: Walgreens at 45th and Guadalupe, Randalls on Balcones Drive
Popular new Central Austin booths in 2015: Torchy's Tacos Mueller, Tacodeli on Burnet Road
New Central Austin booths for 2016: Walmart Supercenter on Anderson Lane, Tomlinson's Feed & Pets Inc. on Burnet and Koenig, Maudie's in the Triangle
