Convenience stores adopt drink sealing machines for takeout ease

Convenience stores adopt drink sealing machines for takeout ease

2024-04-24

Convenience stores have been diversifying their offerings in recent years, even selling things like freshly made honey-roasted chicken cutlets. Looking to meet summer demand, one chain is banking on two special fruit teas. It has even installed cup-sealing machines at 3,500 locations to make the drinks easier to take out.

Lin Yung-chi
FTV reporter
I’m giving my cup a good shake, but this isn’t a drink shop. It’s a convenience store. It recently installed a sealing machine to make takeout easier.

No need for a lid. With a sealed top, there’s no difference between a tea from a convenience store and a drink shop.

Passerby
It’s not bad. It’s easier for workers to drink from.

Passerby
It doesn’t have as many options as a drink shop, but if I’m looking for something convenient, the price is about the same, so I’ll still get it.

Taiwanese love to buy from drink shops, with nearly 1.1 billion cups sold every year. Convenience stores see potential in the market, with one chain installing sealing machines in 3,500 locations.

Tien Nai-wen
Public affairs manager
There are three elements to it: the taste of the fruit tea, the texture of the toppings and the fun of shaking it. Combined with the convenience of being available 24 hours a day and the ubiquity of locations, we hope that it will boost overall sales by 10% or 20%.

Another chain has turned into a chicken shop by selling freshly made honey-roasted cutlets topped with an irresistible sauce. It’s now offered at 80 locations.

Convenience stores are constantly thinking up new services to carve out a niche in the competitive market. Yet with every new offering, workers are left to juggle even more on the job.

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