🇨🇳🇺🇸 Chagee, one of China’s biggest tea chains, is adding 2 shops in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.
One goes into Stonestown in San Francisco in early 2027, the other into Valley Fair in Santa Clara late this year or early next.
The brand started in 2017, listed on Nasdaq last year, and now runs about 7,500 stores, most of them in China, with more across Southeast Asia.
It opened in Los Angeles first and stayed in Southern California before moving north.
Those 2 malls already have Heytea, Quickly and Coco.
Stonestown is still adding tenants after San Francisco’s old downtown Westfield closed.
Valley Fair sits in Santa Clara next to an Apple store.
Same week the 2 governments are doing a state visit, the everyday version is a tea counter in a shopping centre.
Source: Kron 4 / Writer: Lucas