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 And before that, WeDrink had collaborated with   see the feasibility and embark on a new entrepreneur-
 art shows, concerts and music festivals such as World   ial path inspired by the popularization of cocktails.
 of Flowers and Luis Chan, and even made its way into   The outcome he achieved is WeDrink, which has
 ZERO Mama Fitness Studio. People who are physically   17 stores in Shanghai and has stores in other six cities
 and psychologically in a state of low health are more   like Hangzhou, Xiamen, Ningbo, etc. Benefiting from
 interested in relaxing and decompressing. It is a com-  Hangzhou’s middle-class lifestyle and Xiamen’s milk
 mon lifestyle to go to the bar after work and gym.   tea economy, WeDrink’s path to expansion has been
 WeDrink has chosen to partner with gyms to not only   smooth. In the future, Huang hopes to bring the ‘tea +
 facilitate the scenario for consumers, but also to give   wine’ lifestyle to more places, and also projects the
 them a ‘two birds with one stone’experience.  return of the space for consumers to experience, “We
 expect  to  have  a few  stores  of 50-60  square meters,
 Changes in Personal Life and His Brand  offering a combination of cocktails and new-style tea
 drinks, but incorporating more different experiential
 In the interview, Huang also gave us the story   features and ambiences.”
 of what it was like before starting WeDrink. Original-
 ly in the pharmaceutical sales industry, he spent the
 whole day working with the hospitals, and to this day
 he remembers the depressing scenes and stressful
 experiences. Growing up with a love of food and his
 own opinions on food, he sought out the baking in-
 dustry where spontaneous work is craved. After his
 formal training and certification as an intermediate
 baker, he was engaged in baking French pastry, and
 together with his partners, opened a Western-style
 bar, where he was responsible for dessert preparation
 and kitchen management.
 The opportunity for him to leap out of the cater-
 ing industry and into the promising market of tea drinks
 came from the revenue from his restaurant bar with
 his Western food research and development. It was also
 the time of the opening of the first HEYTEA in Shang-
 hai, where the growth of tea drinks in 2017 made him



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