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This is inappropriate! An employee of a tea shop wears a cigarette hairpin!

Published: 2026-04-06 Author:

Last Updated: 2026/04/06, ▲ Click to pay attention| Daily Boutique Coffee Culture Magazine Coffee Workshop Recently, a netizen posted a post titled "Resist the Propaganda of Smoking in Mixue Ice City" on social platforms, which attracted the attention and discussion of netizens. Judging from the accompanying pictures of the posts, the store employees standing in the packaging area were wearing a black hat with Snow King printed on their heads.

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Recently, some netizens posted a post titled "Resist Mixue Ice City's Propaganda of Smoking" on social platforms, which attracted the attention and discussion of netizens.

Judging from the accompanying picture of the post, the store employee standing in the packaging area was wearing a black cap with Snow King printed on his head, with a cigarette decoration on the brim. Another employee in the operation area also had the same decoration on his cap. Regarding the scene he saw, the poster only felt unbelievable,"Why do we let every employee of Mixue have a cigarette on his head?" He felt that Mixue clerk's move was inappropriate, like "making smoking entertaining and daily."

Shortly after the post was posted, onlookers left messages in the comment area to express their opinions. After looking at the pictures, some of them speculated that the cigarette hairpin on the cap might be the personal decoration of the shop assistant."These employees are still children and just want to wear some grotesque hairpin for fun," and "the shop assistant wears it together for fun."

Moreover, in their view, adding decorations to work uniforms may only be the individual behavior of the store's employees. They cannot be generalized. They regard it as "Mixue Ice City's promotion of smoking behavior." They believe that the poster posted the case on the Internet. The behavior on the Internet is a bit of a fuss.

Other Mixue employees who noticed the post also quickly appeared and explained, saying that all stores had posted anti-smoking signs in conspicuous positions at the request of the brand, and that "Mixue clearly prohibits smoking in the store on the red line," so the public did not need to worry too much.

However, most netizens still agreed with the poster's point of view,"Isn't it good to hold a lemon hairpin? Why make a cigarette hairpin?""I feel that the ingredients in the milk tea are all ash." They said that although the employees clip on the brim of their hats is just a cigarette decoration and has no actual tobacco ingredients, it will inevitably make consumers subconsciously associate situations such as "employees may like to smoke" and "there may be tobacco residues in milk tea", which makes people worry about the hygiene of food.

Many other people bluntly said that shop assistants in work uniforms stand in front of the public and "represent the overall image of the company in their posts." They should pay attention to whether the decorations they wear are in line with the brand image. They believe that employees 'use of cigarette decorations may cause Misunderstanding, and it is recommended to replace them with brand spokesperson Snow King dolls or lemon hairpins related to company products as decorations on work uniforms, which will be more conducive to the store's image and can also play a certain promotional role.

In addition, some onlookers pointed out that many of the consumers who come to the store to buy Mixue Ice City drinks are minors. The shop assistant places cigarette decorations in conspicuous positions for fun, but it may give children with insufficient discernment ability to create a bad impression.

While the popularity of the post was rapidly increasing, the account of the suspected store manager explained below the post that the cigarette accessories on the work brim were purchased and decorated by the employee themselves, admitting that the behavior was indeed inappropriate, and has been corrected and guaranteed that it will not happen again in the future. Mixue Ice City's official customer service account also appeared in the comment area,"The store's behavior is inappropriate and rectification has been requested."

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