Tapioca Express vs Presotea Franchise Comparison

Wayne and Stephanie, passionate about their Taiwanese heritage, opened the first Tapioca Express store in the San Gabriel Valley in 1999 �" one of the very first boba chains in the United States. Since the beginning,

Tapioca Express has harvested the finest ingredients from Taiwan and continually provides quality teas, boba, and snacks. However, we did not foresee that boba’s popularity would manifest into its own culture and become an everyday lifestyle. Today, Tapioca Express expands across California and into other states, including Washington, Texas, and Virginia. In our two decades of experience in brewing, we focus on nurturing and enriching communities with the finest teas, coffee, and boba.

Tapioca beverage is a various combination of black or green tea, milk, juice, coffee, and small marbles of tapioca (a.k.a. "black pearl" or "boba", made from Tapioca starch, water, corn starch and natural flavors.) It originated in Tai-Chung City (in Taiwan) around 1981, and soon spread across Asia. In the late 90s, it traveled to North America and has quickly become a raging trendy drink on both coasts. It is perceived as a relatively healthier beverage than soft drinks or coffee, and a lot more fun, too.Tapioca Express was the first in North America to offer a wide selection of high quality tapioca beverage adhering to a consistently high professional standard. Since opening its first store in the city of Alhambra (located in the Greater Los Angeles, California),

Tapioca Express has become synonymous to quality and innovation.

We want to thank you for expressing an interest in becoming part of the Presotea America family. As a leading Bubble Tea business across the globe, we are now poised to take the US Market by storm.

The Presotea America family is searching for business minded entrepreneurs and visionaries like you to take our perfected Bubble Tea to the US. Currently, we are focusing on licensing our brand, technology and process to single site franchisees, and experienced and established area developers.

The franchise offered is a Master Franchise to develop, own, operate and subfranchise “made to order” fresh brewed tea shops called Presotea. The Master Franchise requires the opening of a minimum of 10 Presotea Shops in the protected Territory, within 6 years of the signing of the Master Franchise Agreement whether by developing directly or subfranchising.

The total investment necessary to begin operation of the Presotea master franchise ranges from $235,000 to $365,000, of which the initial down payment of the Master Franchise Fee to be paid to us is $14,000, as well as $20,000 for required initial training, $55,000 for required equipment, $18,000 for required branding, and $50,000 for required opening inventory of supplies and food, for the first owned or subfranchised Presotea Shop, which must be paid to the franchisor or their affiliate.