Good article from the New York Times.
Summary
Starbucks China is losing customers at a very rapid pace. Starbucks corporate executives are angry. Brian Niccol, the new $100 million CEO of Starbucks, sounded the alarm in October, calling the competition “extreme”. For the Chinese Lunar year, Starbucks released a pork flavor latte. It cost more than $9 and was widely seen as a disaster.
Billionaire Howard Schultz, Starbucks’s former CEO, insisted that Starbucks would not enter a price war in China. He claimed “as chinese customers become more knowledgeable about coffee, they will want to upgrade from lower-end or discounted products”
A pork latte sounds incredibly disgusting, what a stupid idea
cool, now I have to worry if coffee is hallal or not too
At that point I thought it was an Onion article.
“Chinese people like pork, right?! And they like coffee! See where I’m going with this?!!!”
Speak for yourself.
What is it, like broth savory, or some fake candy like flavor?