Starbucks

I am a starbucks addict so I am here every morning to get my iced coffee with coconut milk :). All the staff is very friendly. Sometimes they were out of my coconut milk but corporate always reimbursed the wasted gas with a free drink. I prefer this one over the one on 12^th, much faster and friendlier.

So I’ve gone here plenty of times in the past. This time, the last, and even the previous of that one need an overhaul.
Oh and don’t be thinking your going to order one of their most popular panini’s if its after 2pm, «Roasted Tomato & Mozzarella Panini». There ALWAYS out and never prep enough before it opens. Yet they always have that dry, tasteless turkey-​whatever filled to the bin that is always in stock.
First experience: Normal day, long line that wraps around the outer parking lot where the drive entrance is. Like a U starting from the window of Starbucks, going out the drive thru entrance wrapping alongside the parked cars to the entrance of the lot from Lacy Blvd. Waiting, Waiting, and I’ll throw in some more waiting. At least 30mins for a simple coffee. Here is the kicker, your stuck in the line once your in it. So once you enter the drive thru entrance your stuck, committed to however long the chain decides to keep you. It was absurd.
Second Experience: Normal day, faster of a service line only 15 to 20mins. For regular coffee. Venti with Lt Cream. Simple enough. We’ll for Starbucks nothing is ever simple, they decided to give me a Small when should have been the normal Venti. Nope they mess up, okay fine mistakes happen. Or so i thought. You see, when you pour the wrong size and its already been mixed, and sat for a bit, like i saw my item on the counter for a good few minutes. You cannot save it by adding more. It ruins the taste and causes it to become bitter by the acidity of the already burnt beans they use. So the lady pours in my messed up cup into a new one, and proceeds to pour in new from the pot coffee. Then adds more cream into it (remember kiddies, i wanted light cream, by adding more into it, its now therefore not light anymore what however much is now in there). What a mess. So I leave. Go to another location ACROSS TOWN. Because i know I’ll be taken care of there (for the most part).
Third experience: (The straw that inspired this detailed write-​up). Hot off the press’s we have yet another new screwed up venture. Not only was the previous experience less than three days after the last, but also pretty much exactly the same. Same order, nice and simple, same result wrong size. Again. This time i decided to give it a test of my thinking about that whole re-​pouring the old into the new. Guess what, i was right, the taste was all out of balance and all weird. Definitely not LT cream anymore. The dude hands me my new correct drink (after my card was already charged for the other size) and then tells me «Free of charge». Really? Gee thanks. I’m so lucky.
In all, when this chain first opened, it was the place to get your coffee. Since then, LONG LINES, Incorrect orders after incorrect orders.
Final thoughts: If you can mangle the long lines, and deal the occasional mess-​up, then by all means come here. If not, go to the other one for more long lines unless you go inside.

Being a former barista, I’m pretty picky about my coffee and I always order my coffees with extra shots, less pumps of syrup, etc. Either way, this starbucks always gets my order right and are always nice and polite.

Went through the drive-​thru and surprising fast. It was a full drive thru and took me about 4 – 5 minutes to get my drinks. And friendly staff

THEY TAKE FOREVER! Ordered a small drink, took them 30 min. ONE DRINK. Slowest starbucks ever, not even in San Francisco are they this slow.