Coffee houses of Taiwan

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85C Bakery Cafe

85 °C Bakery Cafe (Chinese: 85度C; pinyin: 85 Dù C) is a Taiwanese chain of coffee shops and self-serve bakeries run by Gourmet Master Co., Ltd. The company, with an estimated yearly revenue of $200 million, was founded in 2004 by tea shop owner Wu Cheng-Hsueh. It has over 800 branches located in Taiwan,China including Hong Kong, Australia, and the United States. Known as the "Starbucks of Taiwan", in 2009, the company opened its first US location in Irvine, California.

When Wu Cheng-Hsueh was having coffee with his wife, the idea came to him that he could serve coffee and breads for customers at a low price. He had owned a barbershop, a shoe-material processing plant, a marble factory and bubble-tea and pizza chain stores. Wu opened the first shop in Bao-Ping, Taipei County, in July 2004. The shop was soon serving around 2000 guests per day and selling over 2000 cups of coffee. He opened a second shop in Yuan Toun, Taipei County, in August 2004. Following the success of the two stores, a third store was opened in Goun Yi, in Taichung City, which marked the beginning of the franchising name 85℃ in November 2004. The name "85C" refers to Wu's belief that 85 °C (185 °F) is the optimal temperature to serve coffee.

In 2006, the company opened its first store in Sydney, Australia. A year later, the first store was built in Shanghai, China. With a rapid business expansion, the first store in U.S. was opened in 2009 at Irvine, CA, and Hong Kong in 2012.

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Answer 2

Coffee Alley

Coffee Alley is a coffeehouse chain store based in Taiwan. It was founded in December 2006 by five young people. The Taiwanese name of the coffeehouse was based on the first location of the store in Zhongxiao East Road, and is intended to convey a sense of playing around with coffee.

The store started out in a store of 534.45 square feet but has been extending its scale rapidly in the last eight years. There are six branches in Taiwan and made its debut in Hong Kong in January 2013. Like some other high street coffeehouses, Coffee Alley requires a drink per person as minimum consumption and a 90 minutes dining time limit during peak hours.

Coffee Alley signatures in its coffee beverages, ranging from iced drip coffee to house coffee. Non- caffeine beverages include smoothies and juice. Their food menu focuses on sandwiches and salads, mainly continental style food and desserts.

Coffee Alley founders utilize online platform to achieve promotion objectives, setting up Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube accounts to achieve promotion objectives. To maintain an identical form of business as the Taiwan branches, the Hong Kong branches hire staffs who are not older than 27 years old, and waiters mainly communicate with customers in Mandarin despite the Cantonese speaking majority in Hong Kong. Like in Taiwan, dress code of waiters are casual dressing, basically anything with the Coffee Alley apron attached.

Since reservation service is not available, in the first year of business in Hong Kong, the average queuing time is around 90 minutes. Responding to this phenomenon there are netizens commenting about queuing tactics, such as what time to start queuing and ordering tactic, to ensure their dining experience would worth the wait. The problem is later solved by arranging queuing tickets to customers, the queuing trend has declined.

Coffee Alley’s business competitors are other Taiwanese cafes featuring similar shop decoration, and product range, including Dazzling Cafe and Teawood. Their target customers are also young people and the queuing phenomenon happens to these competitors as well. As a later comer to the Taiwanese cafe business sector in Hong Kong, it’s business is in a competitive scale comparing with its congener.

There are in total eight branches in Taiwan and Hong Kong. Two of them are in Hong Kong and the others are in Taiwan.

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Quickly

Quickly (Chinese: 快可立; pinyin: Kuàikělì) is one of the largest tapioca milk tea franchises in the world, with over 2000 locations in Africa, Asia, Europe and North America. Quickly is the brand name of Kuai Ke Li Enterprise Co. Ltd., which was founded by Nancy Yang in Taiwan and started franchising.

Quickly Corporation was founded in California and started its trademark licensing program at the same time. Quickly began marketing themselves as a New Generation Asian Fusion-style cafe in the USA, as opposed to just a tapioca drink shop. Most locations offer free Wi-Fi internet access.

On May 17, 2008, Quickly officially launched their new age non-fat tart frozen yogurt at the SingTao Asian Expo. The frozen yogurt became available at their key locations the following week. In March 2010, Quickly officially launched their Hong Kong style egg puff (Chinese: 雞蛋仔; pinyin: JiDanZai) which became available at all their locations in Northern California.

Quickly stores in San Francisco became the center of former Supervisor Ed Jew's extortion controversy, where he solicited bribes estimated at $84,000.

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