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Customers look at products at the Starbucks Reserve Roastery outlet in Shanghai on December 6, 2017.
Starbucks opened its largest cafe in the world in Shanghai on December 6 as the US-based beverage giant bets big on the burgeoning coffee culture of a country traditionally known for tea-drinking. / AFP PHOTO / - / China OUT-/AFP/Getty Images ** OUTS - ELSENT, FPG, CM - OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **
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Customers look at products at the Starbucks Reserve Roastery outlet in Shanghai on December 6, 2017. Starbucks opened its largest cafe in the world in Shanghai on December 6 as the US-based beverage giant bets big on the burgeoning coffee culture of a country traditionally known for tea-drinking. / AFP PHOTO / – / China OUT-/AFP/Getty Images ** OUTS – ELSENT, FPG, CM – OUTS * NM, PH, VA if sourced by CT, LA or MoD **
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At 30,000 square feet, a new Starbucks in Shanghai is the world’s largest. But not for long. A 43,000-square-foot store is planned to open in Chicago in 2019.