{"id":853065,"date":"2025-06-03T09:11:38","date_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:11:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/its-not-mcdonalds-or-starbucks-the-worlds-largest-fast-food-chain-is-an-ice-cream-and-boba-shop-founded-by-a-21-year-old-who-borrowed-money-from-his-grandmother\/"},"modified":"2025-06-03T09:11:38","modified_gmt":"2025-06-03T14:11:38","slug":"its-not-mcdonalds-or-starbucks-the-worlds-largest-fast-food-chain-is-an-ice-cream-and-boba-shop-founded-by-a-21-year-old-who-borrowed-money-from-his-grandmother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/03\/its-not-mcdonalds-or-starbucks-the-worlds-largest-fast-food-chain-is-an-ice-cream-and-boba-shop-founded-by-a-21-year-old-who-borrowed-money-from-his-grandmother\/","title":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not McDonald\u2019s, or Starbucks. The world\u2019s largest fast-food chain is an ice cream and boba shop\u2014founded by a 21-year-old who borrowed money from his grandmother"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-cy=\"article-wrapper\" id=\"content\" role=\"article\">\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"People holding an ice cream cone and boba tea from Mixue, the world's largest fast-food chain by number of store locations\" data-content-placement=\"primary_image\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\"   src=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/img-assets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/GettyImages-2202580936-e1748882630381.jpg?w=1440&#038;q=90\"><\/p>\n<p>Customers hold Mixue ice cream and bubble tea in Hong Kong. The Chinese brand Mixue is a global ice cream and tea giant with over 45,000 stores worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>May James \/ SOPA Images \/ LightRocket\u2014Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fortune.com\/2025\/06\/02\/mixue-worlds-largest-fast-food-chain-zhang-hongchau-hongfu\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><br \/>\n Dave Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customers hold Mixue ice cream and bubble tea in Hong Kong. The Chinese brand Mixue is a global ice cream and tea giant with over 45,000 stores worldwide. May James \/ SOPA Images \/ LightRocket\u2014Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":853066,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29038,5008],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-853065","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-its","8":"category-mcdonalds"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853065","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=853065"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/853065\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/853066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=853065"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=853065"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=853065"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}