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 | Customers chatting outside a foreign financed business on the streets of Beijing, China Monday, Aug. 28, 2006. click to open  |  | Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz (L) and Chinese movie star Zhang Ziyi toast during the announcement ceremony to celebrate the establishment of the Starbucks China Education Project in Beijing September 19, 2005. Starbucks Corp.'s upcoming same-store sales growth will be 'more than acceptable' despite the upcoming anniversary of a price increase that boosted numbers over the past year, Schultz said on Monday. Shultz also said that China was the most promising market for the Seattle-based firm, which operates nearly 10,000 stores around the world. Some 140 of those are in China. click to open |  | Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz (L) and Chinese movie star Zhang Ziyi toast during the announcement ceremony to celebrate the establishment of the Starbucks China Education Project in Beijing September 19, 2005. Starbucks Corp.'s upcoming same-store sales growth will be 'more than acceptable' despite the upcoming anniversary of a price increase that boosted numbers over the past year, Schultz said on Monday. Shultz also said that China was the most promising market for the Seattle-based firm, which operates nearly 10,000 stores around the world. Some 140 of those are in China. click to open |  | Life in Beijing: A Starbucks employee pours coffee beans into a grinder before the opening ceremony of the Seattle-based company's first retail coffee store in Beijing Monday, Jan. 11, 1999. [AP] click to open |  | Life in Beijing: Local customers try out the coffee at the opening ceremony of China's first Starbucks coffee retail store in Beijing Monday, Jan. 11, 1999. click to open |  | Life in Beijing: Pan Jun drinks a cup of coffee during the opening ceremony of China's first Starbucks coffee retail store in Beijing Monday, Jan. 11, 1999. click to open |  | Starbucks President Howard Behar goes over details with Chinese employees at the opening ceremony of the Seattle-based company's first retail coffee store in Beijing Monday, Jan. 11, 1999. The store, located in a five-star hotel, is the first of 10 outlets planned for the Chinese capital in the next 18 months, with more in other major cities. China is the ninth market in Asia where the Seattle coffee company has opened stores. click to open |
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