Luckin Coffee says non-coffee beverage sales top RMB 20 billion

Luckin Coffee has put a hard number on a shift that has been visible in its menu for years: non-coffee drinks have become a RMB 20 billion business. The company said cumulative sales of its non-coffee beverages had topped that mark as of May 31, 2026, while 22 star products each cleared 100 million cups sold. It also said its global store count had moved past 35,000.

That scale matters because it shows Luckin is no longer just a coffee story. The chain said this was the first time it had publicly disclosed milestone data for its non-coffee beverage business, and it singled out the Coconut Latte, Orange Americano, Light Jasmine Milk Tea, Little Butter Latte and Active Apple Kale Tea as proof that the same store network can push coffee, tea, fruit drinks and milk-tea style products through one fast-moving system. Coconut Latte sales alone have exceeded 2.1 billion cups. Orange Americano passed 500 million cups, Light Jasmine Milk Tea went beyond 400 million, Little Butter Latte reached nearly 300 million and Active Apple Kale Tea crossed 100 million.

The menu breadth is backed by a supply chain built for volume. Luckin said its sourcing footprint stretches across Brazil, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Yunnan and Guangxi, while also pulling in ingredients like coconuts, jasmine flowers and navel oranges. It has also invested in a green coffee bean processing plant in Baoshan and roasting centers in Qingdao, Kunshan, Pingnan and Xiamen. That is not the profile of a small specialty café trying to defend origin stories and roast profiles. It looks much closer to a beverage platform with industrial logistics at its core.

The store count tells the same story. Luckin ended 2025 with 31,048 stores after opening 8,708 net new locations that year, then reached 33,596 stores by the end of the first quarter of 2026, including its first stores in Singapore, Malaysia and the United States. It said Q1 net new store openings totaled 2,548. In other words, the company has kept adding doors fast enough to turn new drink launches into national-scale hits.

Luckin has already shown how far that playbook can go. Its Kweichow Moutai-flavored latte sold 5.42 million cups on its first day in September 2023 and generated more than RMB 100 million in sales that day. By the end of 2023, Luckin said the drink had sold 45.83 million cups and brought in more than RMB 900 million. The coconut latte and the Moutai collaboration point to the same conclusion: in China’s café market, the biggest growth may now belong to the chain that can turn a coffee shop into a broader beverage-and-snack machine.