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December 8, 2016

12,000 more Starbucks coming in next 5 years

  • About 5,000 of those new stores will be in China, which the company says will one day be its biggest market.
  • By JOSEPH PISANI
    AP Business Writer

    NEW YORK — Starbucks, looking to the future as its longtime CEO moves to other projects, plans to open 12,000 new locations within five years to boost its number of coffee shops worldwide by almost 50 percent.

    The Seattle-based chain is also adding more food to its menu next year, including organic soups, gluten-free breakfast sandwiches and a wheat-free cooked egg product. And sometime in 2017, customers will be able to talk to the Starbucks app to order a latte or cookie instead of tapping their smartphones.


     
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