Starbucks 行方不明になるs sales 見積（る）s on 中国 COVID 抑制（する）s, 一時停止するs 指導／手引
By Praveen Paramasivam and Hilary Russ
May 3 (Reuters) - Starbucks Corp 一時停止するd its 指導／手引 for the 残り／休憩（する） of its 会計年度 on Tuesday as sales growth 行方不明になるd 塀で囲む Street 的s 予定 to 中国's 堅い COVID-19 抑制（する）s.
類似の sales in 中国, where the chain has 速く 拡大するd in 最近の years to tap rising coffee 消費, 拒絶する／低下するd 23%, 影を投げかけるing 12% growth in North America.
中国's strict lockdown 対策 to 会合，会う its 無-COVID 政策 have upended 操作／手術s of most 全世界の companies that have a 重要な presence in the Chinese market, 含むing Apple, Gucci-parent Kering and Taco Bell-owner Yum 中国.
"I remain 納得させるd Starbucks' 商売／仕事 in 中国 will be 結局 larger than our 商売／仕事 in the U.S.," 大統領 Officer Howard Schultz said in a call with 投資家s.
The company 推定する／予想するs "even greater 衝撃" to its third-４半期/4分の1 results because of the タイミング of lockdowns in Shanghai and resurgence of the ウイルス in Beijing and other cities.
Even so, 需要・要求する in its U.S. 蓄える／店s has been "relentless," Schultz said. 株 rose 5% in 延長するd 貿易（する）ing に引き続いて the results.
"需要・要求する and 歳入 are 重要な drivers," said Ivan Feinseth, 長，指導者 投資 officer at Tigress 財政上の Partners. Tigress owns Starbucks 在庫／株 on に代わって of （弁護士の）依頼人s and accounts it manages. "Everything is going 井戸／弁護士席 in spite of the pandemic and strength in the 部隊d 明言する／公表するs 相殺する the 証拠不十分 in 中国."
全世界の 類似の sales at Starbucks, which recently brought Schultz 支援する to lead the company まっただ中に a wave of unionization at its U.S 蓄える／店s, rose 7% in the second ４半期/4分の1, while 分析家s 投票d by Refinitiv had 推定する／予想するd 7.1% growth.
UNION APPROACH
More than 50 U.S. cafes have elected to join the 労働者s 部隊d union out of 概略で 240 altogether that have sought to 持つ／拘留する 選挙s since August.
にもかかわらず already raising 給料 since last year, the company will 投資する an 付加 $200 million in 会計の 2022 to 解除する 支払う／賃金 for 蓄える／店 経営者／支配人s, 増加する training, 活力を回復させる its "Coffee Master" program for baristas and 開始する，打ち上げる an 内部の app to communicate 直接／まっすぐに with its 240,000 U.S. 従業員s.
The company will also 加速する the rollout of new ovens and espresso machines and 速度(を上げる） up 維持／整備 and 修理s. And it will update its 消費者-直面するing app to give 顧客s more 正確な times to 選ぶ up their （水以外の）飲料s.
The new money will bring total 投資s in 従業員s and cafes to $1 billion this 会計年度 alone.
Schultz also said 顧客s will be able to start 追加するing tips to their credit and debit card 購入（する）s by late 2022, something that baristas at unionized 蓄える／店s in Buffalo, New York, asked for at the 取引ing （米）棚上げする／（英）提議する.
"連邦の 法律 禁じるs us from 約束ing new 給料 and 利益s at 蓄える／店s 伴う／関わるd in union 組織するing. And by 法律, we cannot 器具／実施する 片側だけの changes at 蓄える／店s that have a union," Schultz said, 追加するing that "the union 契約 will not even come の近くに to what Starbucks 申し込む／申し出s."
Schultz said his 最新の 称する，呼ぶ／期間／用語 as CEO will be 一時的な and that he and the board hope to 指名する a 後継者 by the autumn, with the 目的（とする） for that person to take over 完全に by the first calendar ４半期/4分の1 of 2023. Schultz 計画（する）s to remain on the board afterwards.
Higher costs for labor, freight and 商品／必需品s ate into North American operating 利ざやs, which 契約d to 17.1% from 19.3% in the 事前の year.
Total 逮捕する 歳入 rose to $7.64 billion from $6.67 billion a year earlier, as the company opened 313 逮捕する new 蓄える／店s during the ４半期/4分の1. 分析家s had 推定する／予想するd $7.59 billion in 年４回の 歳入.
(報告（する）／憶測ing by Praveen Paramasivam in Bengaluru and Hilary Russ in New York; Editing by Anil D'Silva and Lisa Shumaker)
