Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Lollicup Coffee & Tea


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The result was keep‎__EXPECTED_UNCONNECTED_PAGE__. Liz Read! Talk! 18:57, 29 March 2024 (UTC)

Lollicup Coffee & Tea

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Not notable, poor sources, notability is not shown Rodgers V (talk) 12:20, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the deletion sorting lists for the following topics: Food and drink, Companies, China,  and California.  WC  Quidditch   ☎   ✎  15:53, 22 March 2024 (UTC)
 * I have blocked the nominator for spamming, but I believe this nomination should be considered on its merits. MER-C 14:50, 24 March 2024 (UTC)

Keep per the significant coverage in multiple independent reliable sources.  The article notes: "My goal is not so much to document the history of the Lollicup, nor the overall boba phenomenon, but to understand how Lollicup is a transnational and hybrid social space that is linked to Asian American youth culture. ... Beyond sentiment, I have selected Lollicup because of its origins and implications for Asian American youth culture. Lollicup, as opposed to newer independently established boba cafes, exemplifies a trans-border project. The business, already wellestablished in Taiwan, migrated to the United States and was one of the earlier boba enterprises to gain popularity." The article notes: "Lollicup Tea and Coffee, established as Lollicup TeaZone, obscures the borders between Asia and the United States. ... Looking at specific cafes provides clues to understand individual Lollicups. The clientele differs based on the geography of each Lollicup café, and thus those specific patrons, given their respective identities based on socioeconomic class or age will attach individual meanings to their Lollicup. However, I argue that certain aspects of Lollicup culture permeate individual locations to facilitate the creation of La Vida Boba. They include the centrality of Asian American youth both as consumers and producers of Lollicup culture and the role of the café as a social space where Asian American identities are forged. Two Lollicups in the San Fernando Valley illustrate my points."   The review notes: "Lollicup’s claim to fame is its milk tea, which comes in all kinds of flavors, including almond, orange, coconut, honey, jasmine, strawberry, and mango, just to name a few. It also features fruit juice and fruit tea, as well as smoothies. ... The first Lollicup started in San Gabriel 13 years ago. Although the company didn’t have much money to advertise, word of mouth spread quickly. So quickly, in fact, that five locations opened within the first three months of operation. ... Diamond Jamboree Lollicup also features a Battle of the Clubs, which can be found prominently displayed on the wall. A carryover from one of Ito’s older businesses, the Battle of the Clubs is a way to help out local clubs and schools from the surrounding area."   The article notes: "When it opened in 2000, Lollicup, which began life as a single tea shop in the San Gabriel Valley, was one of the only boba shops in the United States. Then came the boba craze, during which the company expanded like, well, bubble tea. Today the company distributes 70% of all the boba in the U.S. and has nine shops in the greater Los Angeles area. Last year, Lollicup upgraded to a 300,000-square-foot facility in Chino. Staffed with 175 employees, the company has a full manufacturing operation for disposable dining ware and a commercial kitchen used for training sessions."   The book notes: "It's a new wave of tea and blended coffee at Lollicup Coffee & Tea-Fullerton.... Lollicup is known for its Royal Milk Tea, popcorn chicken and relaxing atmosphere. There are over 200 drinks on the menu that can be hot or cold and customized to your liking. If you are not ready to try a Boba drink yet, other alternatives include flavored milk drinks, slushes, smoothies, coffee drinks and a variety of unusual tea drinks. Coffee and tea drinks can be ordered hot or cold, with soy or regular milk. Fruit drinks can be prepared with more or less sugar. It's all up to you. A healthy alternative is Teaology. This is a sugar-free, naturally decaffeinated, botanically- infused antioxidant-rich green tea. Lollicup Coffee & Tea offers food choices, like tofu salad and Chinese specialties, to go with that special drink. ... The great color on the walls and lively night atmosphere will make you lose track of time. Bring the kids; Lollicup provides a special hangout just for their amusement."   The article notes: "Lollicup has a few snacks, but this stall is mainly a spot for a variety of hot and cold drinks. The chain has outposts all over Asia and the United States, including one nearby in Quincy. It specializes in boba milk tea, but it has numerous combinations of fruit and milk flavors and add-ons as well as fruity slushes, smoothies, and hot beverages."  <li> The review notes: "Call it a tea zone. At Lollicup Coffee and Tea, customers can pick from a menu of around 100 different tea drinks from milk teas to flavored teas, tea slushes to tea smoothies. It's a veritable tea-venture. Lollicup first opened in California's San Gabriel Valley back in 2000. In the last five years, it has become a chain, which has expanded to more than 90 cafes over 12 states. ... I ordered the honeydew milk tea, made with golden tea, and added flavored lychee coconut jellies to the drink. It was a light mint green-colored concoction, on the rocks, with thin, light green, Jello-like slivers that collected on the bottom of the cup. The drink was sealed air-tight with plastic. I grabbed a giant-sized straw and punctuated the top. Within seconds, I was getting my fill of the sweet, honeydew flavored drink." </li> <li> The review notes: "Bubble tea and Hawaiian barbecue. They're guilty pleasures. And at Lollicup Coffee & Tea on Winchester Boulevard in San Jose, you can indulge in both at the same time. ... The real reason to drop into Lollicup, though, is the bubble, or pearl, tea drinks. There is a large selection of teas, slushies and smoothies all spiked with large, chewy tapioca pearls that zip up a wide straw. My favorite is a delicious honey milk tea reminiscent of Thai iced tea but not as sweet -- perfect. The peach tea is smooth and refreshing but a bit on the sweet side. Taro tea has a subtle chocolate flavor. All the drinks suffer from too little ice." </li> <li> The article notes: "華裔俞宗明（Alan Yu）於本世紀初從台灣引入美國的樂立杯品牌波霸奶茶，有雄心將它做成年產值3億美元的企業，讓波霸奶茶飲食文化遍及北美. ... 台灣在上世紀90年代末，興起波霸奶茶熱，這時也是俞宗明經營錄影帶出現轉捩點. 他到台灣試圖將波霸奶茶引入美國. 2000年在聖蓋博市設立樂立杯飲品店，推銷波霸奶茶系列飲品. 三年間做到了70餘間加盟店. " From Google Translate: "Chinese-American Alan Yu introduced the Lollicup brand of Boba milk tea to the United States from Taiwan at the beginning of this century. He has the ambition to turn it into a company with an annual output value of US$300 million and spread the Boba milk tea food culture throughout North America. ... In the late 1990s, the boba milk tea craze arose in Taiwan. This was also a turning point for Yu Zongming’s video business. He went to Taiwan to try to introduce Boba milk tea to the United States. In 2000, a Lollicup beverage store was established in San Gabriel City to promote the Boba milk tea series of beverages. In three years, we have opened more than 70 franchise stores." </li> <li>Less significant coverage:<ol> <li> The book provides one sentence of coverage about the subject. The book notes: "Among the most successful of entrepreneurs to take advantage of these markets was Roger Chen, founder of the Ranch 99 supermarket chain, and Alan Yu and Marvin Cheng, cofounders of Lollicup Coffee and Tea, a national chain of cafés featuring popular Asian boba teas." </li> <li> The book provides one sentence of coverage about the subject. The book notes: "Lollicup Coffee & Tea is a Taiwanese American chain of tea shops that serves Taiwanese snacks such as popcorn chicken and bubble tea." </li> <li> The book notes: "If boba is your beverage of choice, head to Lollicup in Town Square. In addition to a large variety of bobas, they offer more than 150 different types of drinks including milk teas, flavored teas, smoothies, slushes, juices, and coffees. Sign up for their VIP card and get 20 percent off drinks and 10 percent off snacks." </li> <li> The book notes: "I grew up in the San Gabriel Valley (aka the SGV), and I remember when the first Lollicup (a popular Taiwanese American chain of boba stores started in 2000) opened in Arcadia, California, around 2001. Eventually, they opened another location within walking distance of my school, so grabbing boba tea was an after-school must! If it wasn't boba, then it was shaved ice, and it was like a ritual. Meeting at a café with friends was the go-to activity. But it wasn't the fancy-schmancy boba drinks that you see nowadays. This was just powdered milk tea, sometimes even served in Styrofoam cups. You wouldn't believe how much it cost—just a dollar! And it was refreshingly delicious on a hot summer day." </li> <li> The book notes: "LA's latest craze—chai latte was so five minutes ago—is boba, served chiefly at the various Lollicup Tea Zone cafés (pictured; 1-626 965 8882 or www.lollicup.com for locations). Angelenos call it bubble tea; certainly, it's an odd-looking concoction, comprised of black or green tea, flavoured milk and boba, dark, starchy balls made from cassava root that you suck through a gigantic straw. The first Lollicup opened in California in 2000; three years later, over 50 branches had followed." </li> <li> The article notes: "Lollicup Coffee & Tea began infiltrating the SGV in the mid-1990s. Before that, us Asians had to settle for what the Americans were drinking. When I was in high school, my friends and I jumped into a clown car and drove down Valley Boulevard for some spicy popcorn chicken and Thai tea with tapioca balls. We sat in Lollicup (which is now at the bottom of the totem pole, but back then, it was top notch), played Big 2 with our Bicycle Playing Cards and complained about immigrant parents who just didn’t get it." </li> <li> The article notes: "The destination du jour: hangouts such as Mai's Lollicup Coffee & Tea that serve bubble tea and bubble drinks, which look like smoothies or Frappuccinos -- except for the pellets of tapioca at the bottom. ... In the United States, bubble tea has caught on through chains such as Q-Cup, Lollicup and Tapioca Express -- all started by Asian entrepreneurs. ... Lollicup is the largest and has about 100 locations, including three in Central Florida run by Quang Vu." </li> </ol></li> </ol>There is sufficient coverage in reliable sources to allow Lollicup Coffee & Tea to pass Notability (organizations and companies), which requires "significant coverage in multiple reliable secondary sources that are independent of the subject". Cunard (talk) 00:55, 25 March 2024 (UTC) </li></ul>
 * Keep per the extensive sourcing shown above by Cunard. Left guide (talk) 07:56, 27 March 2024 (UTC)


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