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Lucky or online fruit slicer?! Employee: "I want to run away"

Published: 2026-08-26 Author:

Last Updated: 2026/08/26, ▲ Click to pay attention| Daily Boutique Coffee Culture Magazine Coffee Workshop Last summer, Lucky included refreshing and delicious lemon tea on the menu and listed it as a permanent drink. At the beginning of this year, the formula was upgraded to add quick-frozen lemon halves, lemon fruit grains, etc. to increase the taste of the drink. However, Lucky's Lemon Tea 2.0 version

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Last summer, Lucky included refreshing and delicious lemon tea on its menu and listed it as a permanent drink. At the beginning of this year, the formula was upgraded to add quick-frozen lemon halves, lemon fruit grains, etc. to increase the taste of the drink. However, Luckin's Lemon Tea version 2.0 is not very popular with consumers and shop assistants. The reason is the half frozen lemon in the cup with a strong sense of presence.

Many people pointed out that the quick-frozen lemon slices used by Ruixing only add some decoration to the drink and have no significant impact on the overall taste. They bluntly said that it would be better to use freshly cut lemon slices like other tea brands. The shop assistants reported that the quick-frozen lemons uniformly distributed by the company may have mottled skins and black spots, making consumers mistakenly think that the lemon pieces have not been washed or are moldy, causing the store to receive customer complaints and causing trouble to the working workers.

As a result, a certain netizen noticed that Lucky seemed to be taking action to solve this situation and posted a post titled "I heard that Lucky is going to use the slicer, is it true?", which attracted the attention and discussion of many netizens.

According to a user's photo and grapevine, a customer-made store in Jiangsu has installed a fresh fruit slicer. After the lemon is put in, the machine will cut it into thin slices and drop it into the drink received below. cup. In addition, a netizen left a message in the comment area saying,"The company still wants to import fruits, raw fruits," indicating that the quick-frozen lemons in the lemon tea produced by the store may be replaced with freshly cut fruit slices.

This shocking news made all Lucky workers feel extremely afraid to think about it carefully. They were worried that once the brand fully uses the fresh fruit slicer, they would have to go to the store early to wash the fruits and prepare materials, and would have to spend time cleaning the machine when closing."It will feel very tormenting when this thing closes...","It's not even an hour to close","I can't imagine how troublesome it would be to wash it, and I feel like I've already seen me getting off work at eleven o'clock."

Some migrant workers even bluntly said,"When I really use the slicer and fresh lemons, it will be my day to run away" and "If Ruixing wants to do it, I will resign immediately."

However, although some Lucky workers looked troubled after hearing the news, some were optimistic and believed that the company might not fully promote slicers. They said that lemon tea drinks are everywhere on the street. Lucky is not outstanding in this category, and its sales are not particularly good. Therefore, in their view, the brand's replacement of frozen lemons with freshly cut lemon slices may only increase operating costs and cannot increase revenue.

Others believe that Lucky had previously used frozen lemon halves to prevent stores from being equipped with knives for cutting fruits, so as to avoid safety incidents among shop assistants during busy moments. Therefore, some migrant workers feel that although the slicer is safer and more efficient than ordinary knives, there are still certain risks in the process of using or cleaning it. It is speculated that the brand may not fully popularize it and only equip it for special stores.

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