How does blanch coffee relate to the new Heytea cucumber drink?
Heytea is adding a cucumber-based autumn-winter drink to its Super Plant Tea line, blending cucumber with kale and apple and garnishing it with thin cucumber slices and mint. Staff say the preparation is heavy, involving washing, cutting, blanching and juicing, and some joke that resignation letters are already being written.
During peak hours the extra steps leave employees run ragged, a pattern that has followed earlier vegetable releases such as kale, bitter melon and beetroot. Fans mostly welcomed the news and said they were waiting for the mini-program to list it. Whether the launch can balance customer demand and staff workload will shape the next coffee beverage development cycle in tea shops.
Heytea continues to push hard in the fruit-and-vegetable tea segment, and is about to launch a new autumn-winter product, the "Hydrating Slimming Bottle," starring cucumber paired with kale and apple. As soon as the news broke, consumer anticipation and complaints from store staff emerged at the same time. Preparing fruit-and-vegetable tea ingredients is cumbersome, with lengthy washing, cutting, blanching, and juicing procedures. During peak hours, employees are run ragged, and some even joke that resignation letters are already being submitted. Whether this new product can balance consumer enthusiasm and employee burden is worth watching. Front Street Coffee continues to bring you the latest developments in the coffee and tea beverage industry.
▲\n\nClick to follow | Daily specialty coffee culture magazine Coffee Workshop\n\nEver since Heytea entered the fruit-and-vegetable tea field, store worktables have been covered with fresh produce such as kale, bitter melon, beetroot, and cilantro. Many customers glance in and think it is some restaurant's back kitchen, so fans jokingly say, "Heytea might as well change its name to Hey Veggie."\n\n
\n\nJokes aside, whenever word of the "Super Plant Tea" series appears on social media, consumers always pay extra attention, wanting to know which vegetable Heytea has set its sights on this time.\n\nRecently, according to internal information from Heytea store employees, the brand will update its "Super Plant Tea" menu tomorrow with a new autumn-winter drink called the "Hydrating Slimming Bottle." It is understood that this new product uses cucumber, a very popular vegetable, and blends it with ingredients such as kale and apple.\nJudging from photos shared by employees, the new product will also be garnished with thin cucumber slices and mint leaves, so the drink should have a faint minty cooling sensation.\n\n
\n\nAs for this soon-to-be-launched hydrating drink, fans' reactions were not surprising; instead, there was a sense of "finally, it's here." After all, cucumber is extremely common in fruit-and-vegetable juices, and many netizens feel Heytea should have added it to its fruit-and-vegetable juice lineup long ago.\nAlthough this new product lacks surprise, most users still showed strong interest and, upon hearing the news, said they were only waiting for the mini-program to launch.\n\n
\n\nHowever, after seeing the prep scenes employees shared from the workroom, some netizens could not help feeling sorry for them having to work nonstop again tomorrow for the new product: "This is too hard on wage earners," "I feel so bad for Heytea employees," "Heytea staff are going to cry themselves unconscious in the bathroom."\n\nEmployees themselves also have plenty of complaints about Heytea launching fruit-and-vegetable tea one after another: "A wave of resignation letters is being submitted at the prep station," "I'm going crazy, I've given up resisting, please spare me." Many wage earners' vision goes black as soon as they hear the upcoming new product is another fruit-and-vegetable tea, and they admit that upon hearing the news they already had thoughts of running away.\n\n
\n\nThey say that preparing fruit-and-vegetable tea ingredients is far more cumbersome than for other drinks: washing vegetables, cutting them into pieces, blanching them, and only after all those steps are completed can they be put into the machine for juicing. Moreover, after filtering the juice freshly squeezed from a full large pitcher of raw ingredients, not much is actually left, so during order peaks, to ensure ingredients do not run out, employees in the workroom can only repeat assembly-line work like machines, saying frankly that when orders explode they have no time to catch their breath.\n\n
\n\nHowever, even if employees prep ingredients nonstop and the juicers on the counter work until they break down, they may still receive complaints and bad reviews from some customers because drinks are served too slowly.\n\nAs a result, many Heytea wage earners regard the fruit-and-vegetable tea series as a terrifying monster and are extremely unwilling to stay in the workroom handling box after box of fresh produce. Many even directly call out to Heytea's R&D department: "Invent fewer new products; why must wage earners make things hard for other wage earners?"\n\nImage source: Xiaohongshu\n\nDisclaimer: Some images in this article are from the internet. For some content on the website, such as images, we will respect the original author's copyright and indicate the source. However, due to the large quantity, there may be个别 images and text that have not yet been credited. Please understand. If the original author has any dispute, they may contact the website for handling, and once verified we will correct it immediately. Compiled and edited by "Coffee Workshop." Please indicate the source when reposting. If there is infringement, please inform us for deletion. Thank you~!\n\n
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