Originally Posted by
exbayern
I'm veering way off topic, but I would be curious to know what ratio of Starbucks customers outside North America are local vs visitors. The few times I have ventured into a Starbucks in Germany it was either empty, or had people with American accents, or a few confused locals trying to understand the 'system'. The same was true in China.
In Sydney it's mainly people who I would judge to be in their late teens, and Asians. We have a large Asian population, so I couldn't say if they were local people or visitors. (I'm not inside so i don't hear their accents to guess where they might be from).
And even though there are far fewer Starbucks now than when they first tried (and failed) to conquer, they never seem to be very busy.