China’s biggest coffee chain isn’t trying to be your third place. China’s biggest coffee chain just opened stores in the U.S. for the first time. Its business model is the antithesis of Starbucks’s “back to basics” plan.

Starbucks got some heated competition Monday as China's largest coffee chain Luckin Coffee opened its first two locations in the United States.

Luckin Coffee opened its first US location, offering pineapple and coconut coffees. But customers were lured in by something other than flavors.