The Seattle-based coffee chain is the latest in a string of big-name franchises and retailers of everything, from pizza to skinny jeans, to open doors in the continent’s second-largest economy after Nigeria, long seen as a gateway to African markets.
The company’s first retail store in sub-Saharan Africa, where it sources coffee from nine countries, opened in a posh shopping district of Johannesburg on Thursday, where people had been lined up since 6 a.m.