Coffee Science Post | Introducing 12 coffee brands, choosing coffee is no longer embarrassing!

Are you sure you don’t want to have a cup of coffee when you meet up with a few friends at a shopping mall? But the embarrassing thing is that you may only know Starbucks, Pacific Coffee, or Luckin Coffee. In order to help us choose a coffee shop that suits you more confidently next time, today we will introduce you to these 12 coffee brands!

01. Starbucks

Starbucks coffee was born in Seattle, USA. The company was founded in 1971 and is the world's leading specialty coffee retailer, roaster and owner of the Starbucks brand. In January 1999, it opened its first store in mainland China. For Starbucks, China has become its fastest-growing and largest overseas market.

02. Costa Coffee

Costa Coffee was founded by a pair of Italian brothers who opened their first coffee shop in London in 1971. They roasted coffee beans slowly at low temperatures to make the coffee more fragrant and less bitter. They also mixed Arabica and Robusta coffee beans in a ratio of 6:1 to develop the unique Italian espresso that only Costa can offer. At the end of 2006, Costa opened its first store in China on Nanjing East Road Pedestrian Street in Shanghai.

03. Pacific Coffee

Pacific Coffee was founded in Hong Kong in 1992 as "China's own coffee chain brand". In 2011, it officially entered the Chinese mainland market, injecting tranquility and warmth into the lives of coffee lovers with good coffee, good service and good environment.

04. U.S. Island Coffee

U.S. Coffee opened its first store on a busy street in Hainan in 1997. To date, it has more than 500 chain stores across China, making it one of the most popular coffee restaurant chains in the country.

05. Luckin Coffee

Luckin Coffee is a young and active coffee brand. In October 2017, Luckin Coffee opened its first store in Beijing Galaxy Soho. It advocates a more convenient and fast "new retail coffee" experience, where consumers can freely purchase and pick up coffee through mobile terminals, which completely changes the traditional coffee business model.

06. Lian Coffee

Lian Coffee was founded in Shanghai in 2014, focusing on coffee delivery under its own brand Coffee Box. Lian Coffee offers two modes: "drink by yourself" and "send to friends via WeChat".

07. McCafé

McCafe is a coffee brand under McDonald's, which was born in Australia in 1993. It can appear in the form of an independent coffee shop. In the corner of McCafe, McDonald's not only has a high-end coffee machine to grind coffee beans for customers on site, but also provides various coffee drinks and sells some food that goes with it.

After talking about these well-known coffee brands, let’s get to know the relatively niche coffee brands:

01.Man Coffee

Man Cafe is positioned as an experiential cafe "an idol-level romantic cafe from the cat planet", with cat-themed two-dimensional culture, "man" as the main theme of experience design, and a fusion style of "Eastern style, Western style, and fresh school".

02. Xishe Coffee

The reputation of Seasaw Coffee comes from its establishment of a learning coffee experience center, its insistence on handmade coffee products, the third space lifestyle, and brand value, and its focus on consumer experience, with a focus on fashion and simplicity.

03.GREYBOX COFFEE

GREYBOX COFFEE is a coffee chain opened by Roseonly. The chain stores are mainly located around boutique shopping malls and high-end office buildings with concentrated traffic. It is committed to defining the third generation of boutique coffee.

04.Doutor Coffee

Doutor Coffee, the coffee chain with the largest number of stores in Japan, entered the Chinese market in 2018. It adheres to the concept of "making delicious coffee affordable for consumers".

05.Sisyphus Vector Coffee

As an extension of the reading experience, Vector Café provides readers with fragrant coffee, a comfortable reading environment and a cozy communication space. A cup of good coffee, a good book, a good piece of music, a good communication and a thorough cultural activity are all the meaning of Vector Café's existence.

Now that you know these coffee brands, you can choose freely next time you want to drink coffee with your friends~