Luckin Coffee Inc

Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to Luckin Coffee's second quarter 2022 earnings conference call. All participants will be in a listen-only mode during management paper remarks, and there will be a question and answer session to follow. Today's conference is being recorded. At this time, I would like to turn the call over to Mr. Bill Zimmer at ICR for opening remarks and introductions. Please go ahead, sir.

Hello, everyone, and thank you for joining us on today's call. Luckin Coffee announced the second quarter of 2022 financial results earlier today. A press release is now available on the company's IR website at investor.lkcoffee.com. Today, you will hear from Janine Guo, Chairman and CEO of Luckin Coffee, and Reinhard Schakel, CSO of Luckin Coffee. After the company's prepared remarks, the management team will conduct a question and answer session based on questions submitted via the company's webcast. We will be referring to a slide presentation on today's call which can be found via conference call webcast link, as well as on the company's IR website. Again, the IR website link is investor.lkcoffee.com. During this call, the company will be making some forward-looking statements regarding future events and results. Statements that are not historical facts, including but not limited to statements about the company's beliefs and expectations are forward-looking statements. Forward-looking statements involve inherent risks and uncertainties. Further information regarding these and other risks is included in the company's filing with the SEC. With respect to any non-GAAP measures discussed during the call today, the accompanying reconciliation information related to those measures can be found in the earnings press release issued earlier. During today's call, Dr. Guo will speak in Chinese and his comments will be translated into English. At this time, I would like to introduce Alicia Guo, Luckin Coffee's new investor relations director. Alicia, please go ahead.

Thank you, Bill. Hello everyone. Thank you for joining today's call. My name is Alicia and I am the IR director of Luckin Coffee. I joined the company in July and look forward to communicating with you moving forward.