@Dante Wong
I’m Chinese but I don’t drink coffee so I don’t have a dog in this fight, but regarding your question, well, I think we Chinese will manage just fine after Starbuck’s hypothetical demise.

After all, we have our very own homegrown 瑞幸咖啡 - or in English, Luckin Coffee - which has already surpassed Starbucks in terms of annual sales & number of stores and is currently the largest coffee chain in China:

Luckin Coffee's annual sales for 2023 hit 24.9 billion yuan ($3.45 billion), up 87.3 percent from the previous year's 13.3 billion yuan.
Compare this to Starbuck’s 2023 annual sales of $3.16 billion.
When it comes to number of stores, Luckin Coffee is very much ahead of Starbucks:
In fact, Luckin Coffee took less than a year to reach 1000 stores.
Cotti Coffee is even more aggressive in its expansion plans, reaching 1000 stores in
In comparison, Starbucks took 16 years to reach 1000 stores.
Luckin Coffee’s triumph over Starbucks has been attributed to its much deeper understanding of the Chinese market and consumer preferences. Its franchise model and strategy of targeting China’s second-tier cities and below have also been instrumental in contributing to its explosive growth and expansion across the country.
In conclusion, James Mitchell - in the event of Starbucks’ hypotethical demise in China, we will still have Luckin Coffee, Cotti Coffee, Lucky Cup and a whole host of other coffee brands to pick from.
We’ll manage


我是中國(guó)人,但我不喝咖啡,所以在這場(chǎng)戰(zhàn)斗中我沒有養(yǎng)狗,但關(guān)于你的問題,嗯,我認(rèn)為在星巴克假設(shè)的滅亡后,我們中國(guó)人會(huì)做得很好。
畢竟,我們有自己的本土瑞幸咖啡,或者說(shuō)瑞幸咖啡,它的年銷售額和門店數(shù)量已經(jīng)超過(guò)了星巴克,是目前中國(guó)最大的咖啡連鎖店:
瑞幸咖啡2023年銷售額達(dá)到249億元人民幣(34.5 億美元),比上年的133億元人民幣增長(zhǎng)87.3%。
與此相比,星巴克2023年的年銷售額為 31.6 億美元。
從門店數(shù)量來(lái)看,瑞幸咖啡遠(yuǎn)遠(yuǎn)領(lǐng)先于星巴克
事實(shí)上,瑞幸咖啡用了不到一年的時(shí)間就達(dá)到了1000家門店。
庫(kù)迪咖啡的擴(kuò)張計(jì)劃更加激進(jìn),在2019年門店數(shù)量達(dá)到1000 家。只用了5個(gè)月。
相比之下,星巴克花了16年時(shí)間才擁有1000家門店。
瑞幸咖啡戰(zhàn)勝星巴克的原因在于其對(duì)中國(guó)市場(chǎng)和消費(fèi)者偏好的更深入的了解。其針對(duì)中國(guó)二線及以下城市的特許經(jīng)營(yíng)模式和戰(zhàn)略也對(duì)其在全國(guó)范圍內(nèi)的爆炸性增長(zhǎng)和擴(kuò)張做出了重要貢獻(xiàn)。
即使星巴克在中國(guó)消亡,我們?nèi)匀粫?huì)有瑞幸咖啡、科蒂咖啡、和許多其他咖啡品牌可供選擇。
我們會(huì)處理好的