Eighty Five
A branding system that brings sweetness and joy to your home.
Summer 2022
14 weeks
Branding & Packaging Design
Products
Assets
Research
About 85 °C Bakery Café
Mr. Cheng-Hsueh Wu founded 85 °C Bakery Café in 2004 in Taipei. Today, it has over 1,000 locations worldwide. It provide premium coffee, bread, and cake at affordable prices. Each store features an in-shop bakery and sell freshly baked pastries
Why 85 °C
The perfect brewing temperature for espresso coffee is 85 °C.
The name symbolizes the company’s devotion to providing every guest with the highest quality coffee, bread, and cakes.
Products Experience
Inconsistent packaging design
Too much plastic, not sustainable
Consumer Interview Insights
I love the store that is close by and the soft taste of the bread.
We make purchase by taking consideration of ingredients.
I enjoy the smell and visual of the products.
I love the cheese tart from the store that my friend recommend to me.
I love the environment of the store and the variety of choices they have.
Opportunities
Disconnection between the company’s mission and what they offer in packaging
No specialty for brand
Branding
Precisely and uniquely crafted Asian pastries for American market.
Redefining the 85 °C Bakery Café to celebrate our pursuit of perfection through precise control over our pastries and beverages. Streamlining our consumers' purchasing experience by providing freshly baked items delivered straight from our ovens. In honor of our Taiwanese origins, we highlight unique recipes created by our master chefs, bringing the Asian bakery experience to Americans.
Line of Products
Breads
Cakes
Beverages
Key Attributes
Asian/ Taiwanese heritage
Precise/ Bake to perfection
Freshness/ Oven straight to shelf
Convenient/ Grab & Go
Craft/ Uniquely produced
Target Audience
Embracive Explorers
Mostly Gen-Z & millennial
Interested in sustainable packaging
Highly influenced by social media
Care about health and wellness
Celebrate diversity with culinary experiences
Deeply embed with convenience cultural