“Uncle Hurry up and repay our hard-earned money!” Recently, several employees who claim to be Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea broke the news on social media: the company owes employees’ wages and has been ongoing for several months.
A netizen who claimed to have joined Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea for half a year said that Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea has not paid wages normally since September, and “the salary has been delayed again and again, without any explanation.” “The company says it is difficult every month, let us understand it. The employees really can’t understand it until now.” An Uncle Employee of Qiu Babaylan 1990 cloth draw told reporters that they have to apply for registration every month. Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw, and they will be given (wages) after urging them many times. According to the employee’s observation, many stores of Uncle Qiu Lemon Lemon are either owed rent or wages, and many stores have chosen to close.
In response to this, on November 27, the reporter called Uncle Qiu’s official website to contact information, but no reply was received as of press time.
Wage arrears, store closures, and rent cannot be afforded… This Guangdong lemon tea brand, founded in 2018, seems to be in an unprecedented difficult time.
Doctor Qiu Lemon Tea, who was involved in a wage arrears storm, was pierced through the last layer of window paper. Before that, the crisis seemed to be traced.
Dragging wages and arrears are not temporary. Internal notices released by many employees who claim to be Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea on social platforms show that from July to November 2023, Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea’s main company “Guangzhou Shanqiu Catering Management Company” successively issued notices of wage delays, reasons including: the impact of the typhoon in July damaged telecommunications and financial infrastructure, resulting in the loss of salary information; in September, the company’s performance losses were heavy; in November, the notice stated that due to the continued sluggish consumer market, the company’s performance suffered severe damage in the past few months.
A netizen posted on XiaohongshuHe said, “Wage payment has been delayed again and again, and the notifications sent can never be realized.” “We understand that you cannot turn over the capital. It will be delayed in one or two months, but it will not be expected to be more and more excessive.”
“To be precise, the epidemic was not sent on time at the beginning, but it was not too much before, and we can all understand.” An employee who claimed to have worked in Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea for nearly two years told reporters that even the employees who had left their jobs were unable to get a repaid salary.
According to the above-mentioned employees, his salary in October totaled more than 5,000 yuan, and the normal salary date is 1 month. Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw5 days ago, Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, but has not received it until now. “Since I joined the company, I only had one month’s salary paid on time, and even some store managers have not received their September salary.” The employee of Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea told reporters that the company did not give a response to the obvious problem solving, and only “issued a few Babaylan 1990 cloth drawBabaylan 1990 cloth draw draw心文. “
In addition to the wage arrears, the reporter also noticed that Uncle Qiu’s offline stores are ushering in a wave of closing stores. On November 27, the reporter found from the Meituan platform that in the Shenzhen and Guangzhou areas alone, more than 20 Uncle Qiu’s lemon tea stores have shown “closure” status.
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“There are estimated that only 20% of the stores that are truly profitable within.” According to the above-mentioned employees, the company has closed about 20-30 stores and is expected to continue to close. It is not clear that the layoffs within the company are forcing employees to be unable to stand their own resignation.
At present, Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea only opens stores in Guangdong Province, covering six cities in the province including Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Zhuhai and Foshan. Most of the stores are located in first-tier cities. Public information shows that Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea once planned to open 300 stores by 2022.
However, judging from the official updates, Uncle Qiu’s lemon tea has not completely stopped. The brand Weibo and official accounts are still operating. On November 22, Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea’s official account is still promoting a joint branding activity with Little Parrot BEBE, while most other stores are still open normally.
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Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea was established in Guangdong in 2018 and is a new player in the lemon tea track. In the early days of its establishment, Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea mainly promoted fresh lemons with different tea bases, and the average customer price was about 20 yuan. Among them, the most popular benchmark product is “Duck Shit Bergamot Tea”, which once set off a wave of consumer purchases when it was launched.
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Maybe break the deadlock, Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea has also changed its thinking in recent years to fill the gap in its own product excluding lemon tea category. The reporter found that at present, in terms of menu structure, in addition to lemon tea products, Uncle Qiu lemon tea also includes milk tea, pure tea, etc., but the overall proportion is not high. In addition, Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea has joined the “upgrade war” of tea drinks this year, announcing a new upgrade of milk tea products, using milk as the milk base.
In terms of price, Uncle Qiu Lemon Tea seems to have also chosen to “concessions” for consumers. In the official mini program of Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw, designated drinks are sold for only 9.9 yuan per Monday, and the recharge activity is more obvious – 100 yuan is recharged and 50 yuan will be given immediately. The event will start from November 1 to November 30.
The reporter noticed that more than a month ago, Uncle Qiu’s co-founder Xing Meng attended the 3rd China Catering Brand Festival “2023 Catering Investment and Financing Development Forum”. He said that the current investment and financing environment is cold. It is an opportunity to force the development of the new tea industry.
In the context of the extremely inverted industry, Xing Mengyuan suggested, “Tea beverage brands should be more determined and focus on themselves while focusing on the brand and continue to persist.”
But it is obvious that the slowdown in the new tea beverage industry market has become an indisputable fact. Where is the next way out? This question is not just about strengthening the original aspiration.
Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw Source | Jiupai Finance Editor | Yang Chuying