Melbourne Millennials make $2m from Bubble Tea Club business offering DIY kits

CLIENT: BUBBLE TEA CLUB

OUTLET: NEWS.COM.AU

Melbourne Millennials Pam Yip and Jenny Le turned the bitter tea of losing their income during the Covid-19 pandemic into a $2 million dollar company in just a year. Ms Le, 26, was stood down from her job as an optometrist in the first wave of the pandemic, while Ms Yip, 28, lost the hospitality clients that used her marketing agency.Ms Yip said customers aren’t confined to the Asian community either, with more than half of their customers from non-Asian backgrounds, while 10 per cent have never drunk bubble tea before stumbling on their business.Some have never returned to a bubble tea shop either after discovering their DIY kits, she revealed.

Melbourne Millennials Pam Yip and Jenny Le turned the bitter tea of losing their income during the Covid-19 pandemic into a $2 million dollar company in just a year. Ms Le, 26, was stood down from her job as an optometrist in the first wave of the pandemic, while Ms Yip, 28, lost the hospitality clients that used her marketing agency.

Ms Yip said customers aren’t confined to the Asian community either, with more than half of their customers from non-Asian backgrounds, while 10 per cent have never drunk bubble tea before stumbling on their business.

Some have never returned to a bubble tea shop either after discovering their DIY kits, she revealed.