We're talking boba, groceries, and stuffed crust pizza. Mottletful money starts now.

I'm Dylan Lewis, and I'm joined over the airways by Motleyful analyst Bill Barker. Bill,

thanks for joining me today.

Thanks for having me.

We are all food all the time on today's show, which, I mean, those are the most fun shows that we get to do.

We can talk about financials. We can talk about insurance, but it's most fun when we can

really visualize what we're getting into on the show. A lot of stories in that zone today.

First one up, might be kind of a fun one because it gets us outside the U.S. There is a new,

fresh name on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Mechu. You might see it spelled M-I-X-U-E in headlines. It's a tea and ice cream

fast food chain in China. And Bill, I don't know about you, but my eyebrow went up when I saw

the headline from CNN, this boba chain you've never heard of has more outlets than McDonald's.

Yes, that is the headline. The other alternative to that line is, it's got more outlets

than Starbucks, which is not really possible, I think. So, what else do we know about it? It's

got a sort of a snowman thing going on there. They

play their theme on a loop in the stores, apparently. I don't know how that works, but this

is a very, very large in terms of number of outlets and number of cups of boba tea and ice

cream that it's serving. But it's also not really running the stores itself.

It's franchising more or less everything.

Yeah, and we're kind of getting up to speed on this one because it is not in our local

market here, and so we're relying on a lot on the reporting for this.

It is known to be a budget-friendly chain in China.

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