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Founder:<\/strong> Assad Khan
Founded:<\/strong> April 2011
Website: <\/strong>www.bubbleology.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

As far as career changes go, leaving the equities trading floor at JP Morgan for a Taiwanese tea café is quite a drastic move. But founder Assad Khan clearly believed bubble tea – a tea-based soft drink made with chewy tapioca balls – had a bright future in the UK.<\/p>\n

So far, his instincts have been proved correct and just three months after opening Bubbleology’s first bubble tea café, in Soho, in mid-Spring last year, he launched a café concession in Harvey Nichols. A branch in Notting Hill is set to follow. Assad estimates that 500 bubble teas were sold per day in 2011 – a number which continues to rise – and international expansion is already underway.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Founder: Assad KhanFounded: April 2011Website: www.bubbleology.co.uk As far as career changes go, leaving the equities trading floor at JP Morgan for a Taiwanese tea café is quite a drastic move. But founder Assad Khan clearly believed bubble tea – a tea-based soft drink made with chewy tapioca balls – had a bright future in the UK. So far, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":91469,"featured_media":44902,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-157"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n32. 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