Mixue Ice Cream & Tea is a Chinese multinational fast-food restaurant chain specializing in ice cream & tea-based drinks. It was founded in 1997 in Zhengzhou by Zhang Hongchao. As of early 2025, it operated more than 45,000 stores in China and overseas, which makes it the world’s largest food-service chain by number of stores. Most locations are franchised and the company generates a large share of revenue by supplying ingredients, equipment, and packaging to franchisees. Its menu emphasizes low-priced items such as soft-serve and milk tea. Mixue’s parent company, Mixue Group, listed in Hong Kong on March 3, 2025. The initial public offering raised about HK$3.45 billion and the shares rose by about 40–47% on the first day of trading. Wikipedia