Starbucks' failure in Australia is one of the great case studies in failures of business, almost like the time Best Buy tried to come to the UK and failed rather spectacularly.Lol Starbucks is so gross. There was one in my city for a year or two but they ended up shutting down from not getting enough business But it later got replaced by a McDonald's which is thriving
NYC probably has good coffee, I read an article a little while ago about all the little Australian coffee shops that have popped up around the city.
That said the cafe culture in Australia is not that well known outside it, not that does anything to excuse their failure to do a bit of proper market research.