Take-away beverage business booms

In today's modern, dynamic lifestyle, the demand for food and beverage services not only increases rapidly but also requires diversity and convenience in service methods. This requirement has promoted the strong development of take away beverage business services in recent times.

Through a survey of some areas around hospitals, schools, and industrial parks in Phu Ly city, it is easy to see that the trend of selling take-away drinks is flourishing, bringing in the main source of income for many people. With just a mobile shelf with fresh fruit, ice, coffee grinder, blender and necessary fruit syrups, the seller can open a point of sale, meeting the diverse needs of customers for drinks, from tea to coffee, smoothies, fruit juices... Because there is no cost to rent a space, service staff, and targeting customers who are mainly students, students, and low-income workers, these take-away drinks often have quite low prices, ranging from 7,000 VND to over 20,000 VND per cup (depending on the type).

Around the roads in Chau Son Industrial Park (Phu Ly City), the number of mobile "shops" selling take-away food and drinks is "growing" more and more, focusing on selling the most in the early morning when workers start going to work and at the end of the day. Ms. Lai Thi Lien, the owner of a mobile "shop" selling food and drinks in Chau Son Industrial Park, said: With the advantage of using little capital, low risk, and bringing in a good source of income, I chose this business method to start a business. Because the main target is workers, I mainly sell homemade drinks, ensuring quality and affordable prices such as black bean tea, lemonade, sugarcane juice, etc. Along with that, I also sell some dishes for workers to buy for lunch or dinner such as vermicelli, sticky rice, and various types of bread. Each cup of drink or food package costs only 5-10,000 VND. Many workers want to change their meals or save money from the company's lunch program, so they often buy food and drinks from me.

Take-away beverage business booms — **Ms. Dang Thi Tham's take-away beverage business on Ly Thai To Street, Phu Ly City, offers a variety of drinks for customers.** Photo: Han Han

In addition, on major streets or in areas with frequent traffic, take-away drink "shops" are also popular, meeting the needs of consumers, especially during the hot summer months. The common feature of most of these take-away drink shops and points is that the seller will prepare a drink menu with specific prices posted in front of the mobile cart's mixing counter so that customers can easily see and choose the appropriate drink, then pay and take it away instead of sitting and drinking on the spot like in fixed drink shops. This way of doing business is to meet the needs of the majority of busy people who do not have much time to sit down, such as students, office workers, etc.

For example, at Ms. Dang Thi Tham's take-away drink "shop" on Ly Thai To Street (Phu Ly City), customers can freely choose drinks that suit their "wallet" and preferences with common prices of 10-20,000 VND/cup such as tea, coffee, milk tea, fruit-flavored yogurt, lemon tea, smoothies, fruit juices of all kinds... Not only selling on the spot, Ms. Tham also promotes products on social networking sites such as Zalo, Facebook and delivers to customers when needed. On hot days, Ms. Tham sells hundreds of cups of drinks.

Sharing about her work, Ms. Tham said: Modern life is getting busier, many people do not have much free time to sit in a shop to enjoy coffee and drinks. Realizing the high demand of the market for take-away drinks, at the beginning of the year, I decided to take a course on beverage preparation and then invest in buying a car, machinery, equipment, and raw materials to open a point of sale from this summer. After researching, I chose a location that was easy to find, near a flea market, an office lunch shop with many people passing by, and convenient roads for customers to wait and get their food and move around. Although the "shop" has only been open for a short time, because the price of drinks is affordable, only 50% of the price at fixed stores, the shop attracts a large number of customers every day to buy as well as call to order drinks delivered to their homes, most of whom are office workers.

It can be seen that the beverage business market in general and the take away models are extremely diverse and developing vigorously. This take away beverage shop model is considered a unique business method with outstanding advantages such as low capital, flexible location and easy access to many different customer groups. With many advantages, this type of business is being chosen by many young people to start a business.

Nguyen Oanh

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