Milk tea store belongs to the catering category. Catering is a food production and operation industry that specializes in providing consumers with a variety of alcoholic beverages, food, consumption venues and facilities through immediate processing and production, commercial sales and service labor in one. As defined by the European and American Standard Industrial Classification (SIC), the food service industry is a food service organization that operates for commercial profit.

According to the definition of the "National Economic Industry Classification Notes", the catering industry refers to a certain place, on-site cooking of food, modulation, and sold to customers mainly for on-site consumption of service activities. Catering is an important part of improving people's quality of life, and an important way to open up employment channels and revitalize the economy, and it is playing an increasingly important role in improving people's lives and realizing the socialization of household chores.