Only HEYTEA Would Dare to Do This! HEYTEA Officially Releases 11 Food Safety Action Reports!

Over the past year, food safety scandals have kept surfacing across the bubble tea industry. Several well-known chain brands have been exposed by netizens and media for one hygiene problem after another, leaving consumers genuinely worried about sanitation standards in the modern tea beverage business. HEYTEA — which has repeatedly been rumored to be going public — has hesitated to pull the trigger, and investors have grown wary too.

Some brands do respond quickly when a problem surfaces, apologizing publicly and promising to do better — yet similar incidents keep happening, sometimes worse than before. Consumers have converged on the same verdict about the industry: they talk a good game, but store-level hygiene supervision remains inadequate.

To reassure the public — and to prove that not every brand fails to follow through — HEYTEA posted a message on its official WeChat account at noon today: "Officially Announcing: This Is the November Food Safety Action Report." The report opens with: "We are continuously optimizing our food quality and safety management system, strengthening comprehensive food quality and safety controls across the entire chain." In other words: we are actually acting on this, not just talking.

The report spells out exactly what HEYTEA's self-inspections found at stores nationwide in November, and how each case was handled. Eight stores had food safety issues of varying degrees — food-contact tools mixed with non-food-contact tools, blackened refrigerator seals, juice bottles left uncovered after opening, rusty tools, and fly lamps that hadn't been emptied. According to the report, the stores implemented corrective measures immediately upon discovery.

Beyond those findings, the report explains that all stores nationwide hire professional pest control companies for a full disinfection every month, targeting mosquitoes, cockroaches, rats, and other pests. It also clarifies that every store must confirm its water and ice quality meets standards before opening each day, and that in November the company engaged authoritative third-party professional organizations to conduct scheduled random inspections of water and ice quality across 39 cities.

HEYTEA's voluntary-disclosure approach has won plenty of thumbs-up from consumers. Compared with a simple "sorry, we'll be more careful next time," the company has genuinely tightened its management and further safeguarded consumer safety.

December has begun, and it probably won't be long before other modern tea chains roll out their own "year-end safety reports."

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