Imagine being one of the fastest growing boba tea outlets in the country with 17 stores and counting, employing 400 people and a scheduled coast-to-coast book tour about to kick off, but then in just one day, it all comes to a screeching halt. That’s what happened to Andrew Chau and Bin Chen, co-founders of "Boba Guys", an artisanal boba tea business that started in 2011 as a pop-up. As COVID-19 hit the San Francisco Bay Area early on, Andrew and Bin made the difficult decision to play it safe and shut down all their stores in three cities in just one day. To say it was painful would be an understatement. In this episode, May speaks with Andrew Chau from his home in San Francisco to find out what happened, how he and his team are getting through and even shares Boba Guys’ most popular recipe. 

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