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Stranger Things may not be as popular as Spy X Family in Japan, but it has enough of a following to deserve a cafe! From July 6 to September 9, Japanese cafe Pronto’s Shibuya Fukuras branch will get a Stranger Things makeover called “Stranger Pronto”. The…
While the franchise’s 2021 financial results took a hit because of the Covid-19 pandemic, a tangible gain has been the Starbucks VND90,000 ($4)coffee becoming a daily staple in Vietnam. Starbucks Vietnam general manager Patricia Marques said that despite the…
Despite the Covid-19 pandemic, more and more low-price cafés are franchising and doing well. At 9.00 every day a Napoli café franchisee on Dong Nai Road, District 10, HCMC is crowded. Its owner, Hoang, says: “We directly serve hundreds of customers a day. The…
Indonesia-based digitally-native beverage startup, Hey! Kafe, is expanding its local footprint with 300 stores by the end of next year. According to the company, the brand’s expansion plan will be supported by an asset-light model backed by technology. That…
A sweets shop at New Jersey’s American Dream mall just got even sweeter. The first-ever Oreo cafe opened last week on the top floor of the candy department store IT’SUGAR, a candy and gift shop that measures 22,000 square feet across three levels. The store…
Café de Coral has promoted Piony Leung to managing director (Hong Kong) with immediate effect. In her new position, Leung reports to group CEO Peter Lo and manages business operations and provides strategic leadership across Café de Coral Group’s business in…
British coffee franchise Costa will pull back further from the China market by early next year. In response to a dip in consumer demand, the Coca-Cola-owned firm reduced its physical stores within the territory by around 10 percent last month, half of which…
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…
Indian coffee chain Cafe Coffee Day shuttered 280 outlets between April and June due to low profitability and potentially rising costs. The firm, which now operates 1480 outlets, has also reported a decline in average daily sales from 15,739 cups to 15,445…
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…
Listed Hong Kong restaurant and catering operator Cafe de Coral Group managed to minimize the impact on sales during Covid-19 social-distancing restrictions by expanding its online and delivery operations. The company operates the Cafe de Coral fast food 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…
