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Japanese gourmet coffee chain % Arabica is to open its first drive-thru concept store, in Murouj, Kuwait. The Murouj cafe is the brand’s eighth in the country and it’s first in the world to have a drive-thru facility. The launch comes just a month after the…
Starbucks Japan has teamed with Think Lab to launch a store concept in Tokyo where customers can “focus”. The first floor is designed as a normal Starbucks’ cafe where customers can order by phone and pay via an app. Upstairs, on the second floor is a working…
Thailand’s Pace Corporation, the firm responsible for bankrupting its gourmet grocery business Dean & Deluca earlier this year, has bid US$10 million to buy back the firm. The firm has offered to use half of the investment as a gesture towards creditors, owed…
Luckin Coffee has named Jinyi Guo as chairman and CEO as the Chinese chain tries to move past an accounting scandal that nearly brought it down. Guo, a director, and former acting CEO, replaces founder and former chairman Charles Zhengyao Lu, who was voted…
Comic book-themed DC Super Heroes Cafe is to close down in Singapore after five years. The company posted a message on Facebook this week telling fans its store at The Shoppes at Marina Bay Sands will not reopen after the Covid-19 retail trading restrictions…
Singaporean bubble tea brand Teafolia has permanently ceased operations in the territory. A Facebook post announcing the closure cited the “current economic situation” as the reason for shuttering its outlets. The brand had traded in Singapore for the past…
Local and tourist favorite sandwich maker Hung Rui Chen will be opening a flagship store in Hong Kong this August. Hung Rui Chen is a 73-year-old brand, known for its signature sandwiches and recognized as a national local delicacy for its soft bread and…
Singaporean luxury tea brand Tea WG has expanded its Hong Kong footprint, adding a fourth boutique at Sha Tin’s New Town Plaza, its first in the New Territories. The retailer, which trades as TWG Tea in other markets, opened two boutiques in Festival Walk and…
Chinese tea chain Heytea has closed three-quarters of its Hong Kong network, leaving just two stores operating, at Causeway Bay’s Times Square and Sha Tin’s New Town Plaza. Three of Heytea’s outlets in Tsim Tsa Tsui – at The Sun Arcade and New World…
After months of speculation, US coffee chain Blue Bottle has launched in Hong Kong. The modern coffee roaster is currently serving only takeaway coffee from its location in Lyndhurst Terrace due to restrictions on restaurant trading during the coronavirus…
Starbucks China will invest US$130 million in a new roasting facility in 2022 as part of its upcoming Coffee Innovation Park in Kunshan. The park will be Starbucks’ largest manufacturing investment outside of the US and its first in Asia, incorporating a…
DC Super Heroes Cafe in Manila permanently closed on Thursday, announcing the move on Facebook. In the post, management thanked customers of the SM Megamall store who had been fans of the superheroes-themed cafe since it opened in 2018. “To say that it was…
Starbucks Malaysia has collaborated with iconic local pewter manufacturer and retailer Royal Selangor to produce a collection of handcrafted merchandise exclusively for coffee lovers in Malaysia. The collection includes a coffee stirrer, collar pin, shot…
Starbucks China has predicted sales will halve in the current quarter due to the coronavirus crisis. According to the US parent company’s CEO Kevin Johnson and CFO Patrick Grismer, sales at Starbucks China stores dropped 78 percent year on year because of a…
The number of South Korean cafes continues to grow at a brisk pace, according to a government recent study. The Korea Fair Trade Commission reported there were 15,036 coffee shops in South Korea as of 2018, an increase of 7.9 percent (1105 shops) over the…
Four Singapore Liang Sandwich Bars have closed suddenly, angering the master franchisee for Southeast Asia, Liang Group. The company said the closures were unauthorized. Liang Group CEO Jarvin Leow said the company had not authorized the stores’ shuttering…
