Starbucks in China requires customers to consume drinks to occupy seats in its cafeterias
Starbucks will require purchases for seating in all China cafes, with 8,342 locations as of September. The company plans to sell a 60% stake to Boyu Capital in November 2025.
- Starbucks will require customers to make a purchase to sit in its China cafes.
- Starbucks announced it was selling a 60% stake in its China operations to Boyu Capital in November 2025.
- Starbucks had 8,342 cafes in China at the end of September.
- Luckin overtook Starbucks as China's largest coffee chain in 2023.
- Luckin Coffee is a homegrown brand competing with Starbucks.
- Starbucks China posted comparable-store sales declines in each of the past two fiscal years.
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