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A.J.’s Drive Thru Coffee

Coffee · Half Moon Bay

4.2 · 115 reviews Google
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About A.J.’s Drive Thru Coffee

A.J.’s Drive Thru Coffee is a Café and Café restaurant located in Half Moon Bay, CA. Rated 4.2 out of 5 by guests. Known for: Fast service, Great coffee, Great tea selection. The menu features coffee, quick bite. Offers delivery, takeout. Casual, quiet, trendy atmosphere.

What Customers Say About A.J.’s Drive Thru Coffee

A.J.'s Drive Thru Coffee is praised for its friendly staff, fast service, and extensive drink options, including dairy-free alternatives. The Mexi mocha, Oreo frappe, and coffee smoothies are popular. Some customers have experienced inconsistencies in drink quality and automatic tipping.

Popular Dishes

Mexi mocha oreo frappe zebra Frappuccino Iced Zebra Mocha mocha frappe wildberry smoothie pumpkin latte

Best For

Solo Dining Quick Bite Tourists

Tip: A.J.'s is super convenient when in a hurry, especially for people on the road. Try the Oreo frappe or coffee smoothies.

Features

🅿️ Parking 🚗 Delivery Coffee
🎯 Casual 🤫 Quiet Trendy

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Frequently asked questions about A.J.’s Drive Thru Coffee

A.J.’s Drive Thru Coffee is located at 198 San Mateo Rd, Half Moon Bay, CA 94019, Half Moon Bay.
A.J.’s Drive Thru Coffee offers coffee cuisine.
A.J.’s Drive Thru Coffee has regular opening hours. Check their profile for updated schedules.
A.J.’s Drive Thru Coffee offers the following services: takeaway, delivery.
The most recommended dishes at A.J.’s Drive Thru Coffee based on customer reviews are: Mexi mocha, oreo frappe, zebra Frappuccino, Iced Zebra Mocha, mocha frappe.
A.J.’s Drive Thru Coffee is ideal for solo dining, quick bites, tourists.
A.J.'s Drive Thru Coffee is praised for its friendly staff, fast service, and extensive drink options, including dairy-free alternatives. The Mexi mocha, Oreo frappe, and coffee smoothies are popular. Some customers have experienced inconsistencies in drink quality and automatic tipping.
A.J.'s is super convenient when in a hurry, especially for people on the road. Try the Oreo frappe or coffee smoothies.
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A.J.’s Drive Thru Coffee Half Moon Bay Reviews

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Santak Barsha
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Andrea Ruth
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ignacio de leon
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Estefania lopez
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Ryan Keintz
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Omar Gharbieh
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Tatiana Hadirca
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Cora Ong
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Jennie Harris

Fun coffee choices!

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Sheeba Fatima

Great coffee!

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tuk mol

good service

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Beto Salgado

Large, Wowzers

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Angelica Sanchez

Delicious coffee

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M T

Great coffee

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Sarah Hutchison

My husband and I stopped for a quick coffee and a tea on this rainy evening. Both were delicious. Thank you!

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eric hollister

Rarely do I give 5 star reviews but the ladies and the coffee are TOPS. The owner got a new (super expensive) espresso machine a year or so ago and you can definitely taste it. Beans were always above average but now you can taste the difference. And the ladies/service there??!!? Maaaan, good people. Tip well, It's worth it. Trust me, I've been in the food service industry for over 23 years. Owner's a good guy too

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Jerome B

Mexi mocha!

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Евгений Ковалёв
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Surbhi Sethi
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toni zeidan
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Chance Ortiz
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alicea lopez
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Alex Momotok
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Kirtana A
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Moises Ruiz
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Rachel
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Felicia Hall
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John “Astrogator John” Carrico

Many great drinks... Espresso, shakes, tea.

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Arjun C

Good coffee, great service!

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Rajanikant Kajave

Good hot mocha.

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John Mcginn

Just got to have that morning fix

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Isabella Müller-Vogt

good sweet drinks 🙃

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Grigory Dudorov

Very good coffee !

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Ben Erwin

Super friendly.

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Michelle Moreno

I drive out from San Bruno when I have a chance for their strawberry smoothie....its worth thd drive.

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RIGO Gallegos (Peewee)

Good coffee and great service. Keep up the good work. And service.

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Tushar Surve

Love the pumpkin coffee here, and across the road from here you get the best crabby cheesey garlic bread

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Victoria Cornwell

Great coffee!! Great bagels! Great service!! Starbucks is dead to me!!!

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Dave

Quick service. Good coffee with a lot of selections.

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Kim Stefanac

Drive through coffee very good nice people I highly recommend this place

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Saundra

I try to stop here when I’m leaving the beach. Always fast and the selection is decent.

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Alejandro Rodriguez

Convenient drive thru, good variety of coffee drinks.

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Drew Waterman

Friendly, fast service, and their frappes and scones are delicious

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Kirsten Lindsey

Excellent service and the best pumpkin latte.

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samin samineni

V ORDERED ZEBRA MOCHA JUST NOW.IT IS SO GOOD.

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Kinuyo Paddock

Good coffee and excellent customer service. 😊

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ahmad gharbieh

Awesome drinks and tons of combinations and options

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Homo-Sapien Human

Best place for smoothies, frappes and coffee. Always beats our expectations with great service.

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Bekah Blaylock

Awesome Mochas. We were just driving by and stopped randomly. So glad we did. We went back again 2 days later too!

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Bayarea M

Great coffee, great prices and great staff. I'd recommend trying them out if your visiting HMB!

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Padfoot prongs

Love the coffee here, sometimes I drive by just for it and head to the beach :)

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Adel El-Atawy

An excellent spot... Very convenient location and drive through. Friendly staff always, and it's open party early.

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Leslie

The Mexi mocha is delish 💥

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Bridgett Lyall

Very good coffee and muffins! I highly recommend the Mexican Mocha.

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M Orozco

They have many drinks to choose from. I love the Mexican chocolate mocha.

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Genavieve Anderson

Great little stop for some excellent coffee and the servers were so nice 👍

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M VILLALOBOS

It was so nice to find a place that offers so many syrup flavors and Dairy free alternatives. So tired of just having vanilla lates because I'm allergic to milk. Enjoyed my delicious almond soy latte!!! Service was great too!!

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Shweta Vetal

-Amazing mocha frappe -Very strong latte -The breakfast tea was customisable and was tasty -Convenient location -Quick service -Takeout only

Genavieve Anderson
Genavieve Anderson

Great little stop for some excellent coffee and the servers were so nice 👍

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M VILLALOBOS

It was so nice to find a place that offers so many syrup flavors and Dairy free alternatives. So tired of just having vanilla lates because I'm allergic to milk. Enjoyed my delicious almond soy latte!!! Service was great too!!

Shweta Vetal
Shweta Vetal

-Amazing mocha frappe -Very strong latte -The breakfast tea was customisable and was tasty -Convenient location -Quick service -Takeout only

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Shira Rom

The people that work there are nice and the drinks taste great! We go there all the time. I really recommend it.

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Tomas Flores

Just went by like every weekend and order the Oreo with coffee add to it and the lady made it so good that I return for another one!

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aoi neko

Very nice little coffee shop. Staff is friendly and drive through was fast. I got the Iced Zebra Mocha which was quite yummy. I'd recommend AJ's especially for people on the road.

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Lisha

Amazing customer service ty for giving our dogs treats. The chocolate chip cookies warmed up👌 The zebra & oreo Frappuccino are delicious!

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Ross Blaszczyk

great service and fast. The oreo frappe is delicious and the sizes are really big. like think medium is large at most places

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Carina Isidro

Come here almost once a week. Good coffee great service. Plus its a drive thru which is super convenient when in a hurry.

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Suzanne Correa

Great drink options and great drinks. Kids love the wildberry smoothie. I like the coffee smoothies in every flavor I have tried, especially the pumpkin and caramel. Great service.

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V

I only got coffee here, idk if it's stronger then Starbucks per se but it tastes good, and priced alright, try to come once a week, love my coffee, I'll b back for another delicious cup

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Jo Alsaleh

By far the best regular coffee I have had anywhere, and I drink coffee a lot. I wish you were in Georgia. You would have lines around the block. Just fabulous.

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J Maine

Stopped through here for coffee on a trip up the Pacific Coast Highway. This was the single greatest coffee I ever had in my entire life. It became the standard by which all other coffee will be judged for the rest of me and my wife's lives. And I know in my heart that it will never be matched nor surpassed. This coffee ruined all future coffee for us. Morning routine coffee at the house has become a sad tradition by comparison. 10/10 would recommend; but be warned. If you don't live nearby, will cause heart-ache.

Leslie
Leslie

The Mexi mocha is delish 💥

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A

I only got coffee here, idk if it's stronger then Starbucks per se but it tastes good, and priced alright, try to come once a week, love my coffee, I'll b back for another delicious cup

Jo Alsaleh
Jo Alsaleh

By far the best regular coffee I have had anywhere, and I drink coffee a lot. I wish you were in Georgia. You would have lines around the block. Just fabulous.

Suzanne Correa
Suzanne Correa

Great drink options and great drinks. Kids love the wildberry smoothie. I like the coffee smoothies in every flavor I have tried, especially the pumpkin and caramel. Great service.

J Maine
J Maine

Stopped through here for coffee on a trip up the Pacific Coast Highway. This was the single greatest coffee I ever had in my entire life. It became the standard by which all other coffee will be judged for the rest of me and my wife's lives. And I know in my heart that it will never be matched nor surpassed. This coffee ruined all future coffee for us. Morning routine coffee at the house has become a sad tradition by comparison. 10/10 would recommend; but be warned. If you don't live nearby, will cause heart-ache.

Lisha
Lisha

Amazing customer service ty for giving our dogs treats. The chocolate chip cookies warmed up👌 The zebra & oreo Frappuccino are delicious!

aoi neko
aoi neko

Very nice little coffee shop. Staff is friendly and drive through was fast. I got the Iced Zebra Mocha which was quite yummy. I'd recommend AJ's especially for people on the road.

Ross Blaszczyk
Ross Blaszczyk

great service and fast. The oreo frappe is delicious and the sizes are really big. like think medium is large at most places

Shira Rom
Shira Rom

The people that work there are nice and the drinks taste great! We go there all the time. I really recommend it.

Carina Isidro
Carina Isidro

Come here almost once a week. Good coffee great service. Plus its a drive thru which is super convenient when in a hurry.

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Cesar García
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Ishmael Riles
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Pavan Naganna
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Rohit Nair
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Jerry Head (HeyNow EveryBody)

Great coffee ☕

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Mikealo Barro
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Brian Mynatt
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Nicole Brown

Great consistancy. I love the iced Chai

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Lettica Kane

Great coffee they need more than one guy on a morning rush

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Kymm M-A

Good service, latte meh.

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Noel Graff

Great frozen frappes. Andes mint and matcha are the best! Prices are high compared to the popular chains though, and employees working can be hit or miss on the friendliness and quickness scale. Nice drive thru though on the way back from the beach.

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Gary Grant

I like the whole crew that works there. It's much quicker than the place next to the sandwich shop near the supermarket. By the , I don't do 5's. No place is perfect!

Gary Grant
Gary Grant

I like the whole crew that works there. It's much quicker than the place next to the sandwich shop near the supermarket. By the , I don't do 5's. No place is perfect!

Noel Graff
Noel Graff

Great frozen frappes. Andes mint and matcha are the best! Prices are high compared to the popular chains though, and employees working can be hit or miss on the friendliness and quickness scale. Nice drive thru though on the way back from the beach.

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Dzevad Trumic
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Ellora Staker

They removed prices from their menu. Dynamic pricing should not be allowed; prices should be transparent. Coffee is okay.

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Sarah Parker

I ordered a double shot of espresso from here, my drink was out within 30 seconds which greatly surprised me. However I had been watching the espresso machine through the window the entire time, and the barista working never pulled a single shot. I'm not entirely sure where she got her shots from, but they were obviously old. I was very disappointed. As a barista who works at a true Italian coffee house, I know that after a shot sits for more than 30 seconds after it was pulled, it losses most of its flavor and crema and becomes much more bitter. I would expect this from a chain like Starbucks, or Daylight Donuts but not from a locall coffee shop.

Sarah Parker
Sarah Parker

I ordered a double shot of espresso from here, my drink was out within 30 seconds which greatly surprised me. However I had been watching the espresso machine through the window the entire time, and the barista working never pulled a single shot. I'm not entirely sure where she got her shots from, but they were obviously old. I was very disappointed. As a barista who works at a true Italian coffee house, I know that after a shot sits for more than 30 seconds after it was pulled, it losses most of its flavor and crema and becomes much more bitter. I would expect this from a chain like Starbucks, or Daylight Donuts but not from a locall coffee shop.

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Tim Lucca
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Felipe Garcia
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Jermaine Butler
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Mike Hess

This place is never open when it says it is.

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hinder hilt

Coffee was terrible

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Gokhan Dundar

Low no smıle

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E B

If y’all are gonna be rude during the holidays, just close!!

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Miki J

Didn't appreciate that neither of the workers were wearing masks. Not to mention they just ignored us and kept having a conversation instead of helping us.

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Jonathon Rodriquez

Not espresso, unsure of what it is, maybe premade coffee? Whatever it is it’s burnt and poorly done.

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April Knox

Ordered Coffee and it tasted like hot chocolate, it was luke warm and very disappointing. Way overpriced

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Katherine Hood

Showed up at 5:20pm and the girl working was closing early and wouldn’t take our order, even though all the signs said they were open until 6pm

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Hardy F.

Worst double espresso I’ve ever had. The barista had no clue about coffee or how to provide a double espresso.

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evelyn floyd

I have almost an amazing experience everytime i go there. But unfortunately today was disappointing and I’m not sure ill be coming back. I ordered my usual and it came out so sweet that I couldn’t drink it. I called for a refund, the lady on the phone says ok, hangs up. Thats it. I call back to ask for a manager or someone i can contact to address this. She starts laughing on the phone and says i dont have that information on hand. Extremely dissatisfied. She needs to be fired asap

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Michael Montesinos

Ordered two drinks. The pumpkin latte was way to sweet! The vanilla drink was very blah. We threw away the drinks and went to Peet's right up the road.

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Spencer Wass

Ordered a coffee and a smoothie. The "smoothie" was ice blended with syrup aka a Slurpee - no fruit, no fruit juice - very misleading and overpriced for that matter. It was also the worst Slurpee I've ever had. The coffee tasted ok but was lukewarm.

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Vincent J

Unpleasant experience at this drive-through coffee shop. Was surprised to find a 30% tip automatically added to my bill. Automatic tipping should be optional, and customers should have the freedom to decide. This policy feels unfair and takes away from the convenience of a quick drive-through stop. Disappointed with the lack of transparency and flexibility in tipping. Hoping for a more customer-friendly approach in the future.

Vincent J
Vincent J

Unpleasant experience at this drive-through coffee shop. Was surprised to find a 30% tip automatically added to my bill. Automatic tipping should be optional, and customers should have the freedom to decide. This policy feels unfair and takes away from the convenience of a quick drive-through stop. Disappointed with the lack of transparency and flexibility in tipping. Hoping for a more customer-friendly approach in the future.

evelyn floyd
evelyn floyd

I have almost an amazing experience everytime i go there. But unfortunately today was disappointing and I’m not sure ill be coming back. I ordered my usual and it came out so sweet that I couldn’t drink it. I called for a refund, the lady on the phone says ok, hangs up. Thats it. I call back to ask for a manager or someone i can contact to address this. She starts laughing on the phone and says i dont have that information on hand. Extremely dissatisfied. She needs to be fired asap

Michael Montesinos
Michael Montesinos

Ordered two drinks. The pumpkin latte was way to sweet! The vanilla drink was very blah. We threw away the drinks and went to Peet's right up the road.

Spencer Wass
Spencer Wass

Ordered a coffee and a smoothie. The "smoothie" was ice blended with syrup aka a Slurpee - no fruit, no fruit juice - very misleading and overpriced for that matter. It was also the worst Slurpee I've ever had. The coffee tasted ok but was lukewarm.

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