Which shop is the best coffee between Luckin Coffee and Starbucks?

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For consumers, drinking curry ash is undoubtedly the most important thing is the taste, price, the way to buy. Since Starbucks, costa and luckin coffee do not have the same type of smoothie drinks and different cup shapes, in order to ensure the fairness of the evaluation, Xiaobian and pinecone bought the three ice drinks with the highest coffee content to see which one is the best:

Test products: espresso star Frappuccino (Starbucks), Sea Salt pistachio mocha cool ice (costa), Cappuccino Reina ice (luckin coffee).

Test cup type: all the cup types choose the cheapest cup type.

1. Ice drink taste

After the editor's taste, we agreed that Starbucks and COSTA taste sweet and smoothies are thicker. Although Starbucks has the highest coffee content, it is also the sweetest, and its sweetness completely covers the mellow aroma of the coffee itself. Both COSTA and Luckin Coffee have added cream. The former is more creamy, while the latter is silkier and tastes fresher. Of course, if you like the sweeter taste, then I recommend Starbucks Frappuccino.

Taste comparison of the best coffee: Luckin Coffee > Starbucks > COSTA

2. performance-to-price ratio

They are also the cheapest cups (Luckin Coffee has only one cup, all large cups). In terms of unit price, COSTA cup is 36 yuan, Starbucks is the second, Luckin Coffee 27 yuan is the cheapest, Luckin Coffee's large cup is 4 yuan cheaper than Starbucks medium cup.

In terms of capacity, Luckin Coffee's capacity is significantly higher than that of Starbucks and COSTA,COSTA.

After careful measurement, the editor found that Starbucks and COSTA have the same capacity! So, packaging design is also very important!

Combined with their respective selling prices, after the above evaluation, it is not difficult to see the performance-to-price ranking. By the way, luckin coffee has a lot of activities recently, using buy five get five free, so in fact, pinecone and I spent 27 yuan to drink two cups, which is really a good deal.

Unit price (from high to low): COSTA > Starbucks > Luckin Coffee

Coffee capacity evaluation results: Luckin Coffee > Starbucks = COSTA

Cost performance ranking: Luckin Coffee > Starbucks > COSTA

3. Purchase method

It is understood that Starbucks and COSTA mainly buy in stores, do not provide delivery services, if delivery, you need to go through a third-party delivery platform (such as Meituan takeout, ele.me, etc.) and pay additional distribution fees. Luckin Coffee in addition to the store, but also provides independent distribution services. In order to ensure fairness and impartiality, this evaluation adopts the method of store pick-up purchase.

The editor went to Starbucks, COSTA and Lucky Coffee stores to buy drinks at the same time. Starbucks and COSTA need to line up, of which Starbucks has the largest number of queues.

Luckin Coffee does not have to wait in line at all because he is using App to place an order. Place the order in App in advance, and then you can scan the code to pick up the meal directly when you get to the store. In terms of purchase method, Luckin Coffee is more flexible and can enjoy a cup of iced coffee without leaving home in hot summer, without having to pay extra for distribution.

Waiting time for purchase: Starbucks > COSTA > Luckin Coffee

In terms of taste, performance-to-price ratio and purchase method, Starbucks' espresso Frappuccino will be a good choice if there is a certain requirement for coffee purity. The coffee content is the highest, but the price is slightly higher. The tall cup of 36 yuan is obviously not enough for summer ice drinks. Although the content of Luckin Coffee is not as high as that of Starbucks, it has a moderate ratio of cream to coffee, just sweet, silky and fresh, suitable for public taste, plus the cheapest price and the largest cup. I can't help feeling that a good cup of coffee really doesn't have to be that expensive. In comparison, COSTA is slightly less than satisfactory, putting aside the concentration of coffee, the taste is very general, the performance-to-price ratio is also low, the editor should not choose to buy it. The above evaluation is only for the three drinks mentioned above, and you can also choose the suitable summer ice drink according to your own preferences. Have you decided which cup of coffee to drink?

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