Smoothie Factory

This location seems to randomly close early, despite advertising a 3−5pm happy hour, and sometimes, don’t open at all. They’ve had the gates locked for the last 4 – 5 days with no signs or explanations.
When they are open, the service is slow (often only one employee there), and they often run out of pretty vital ingredients to make a protein shakes, including some of their most popular protein powders, for weeks at a time! They also tend to run out of peanut butter and bananas, although these are usually replenished in a day or two.
They do offer a rewards program, but only one of the cashiers seems to know about it, and he seems to also work at Ragin Cajun and My Fit Foods, so you never know who you might get.

I can’t believe this place has such good reviews. Me and five co-​workers decided to take a break and get some smoothies here. As soon as we walked in, the gentleman behind the counter acted like we were purposely making his life difficult. Between the sighing and muttering about how he «couldn’t believe» we were doing this to him, it was obvious he was not happy we were there.
After he took our orders, it took him over half an hour to make our smoothies. As we watched him prepare them, we noticed him repeatedly licking his fingers, which is DISGUSTING.
The smoothies themselves were average, nothing special. I couldn’t finish mine because every time I took a sip, I pictured the employee licking his fingers then continuing to make the smoothies. In addition, the smoothie was watered down, not very flavorful, kind of an odd texture. I do not recommend this place at all.

Smoothies, health food bars and snacks, and jugs of powdered protein. It seems like an odd combination, when I write it down, but that is what this place is about. This is an excellent place to get a tasty smoothie with many different ingredients from friendly helpful and interesting folks. That complete sums up the experience. Highly recommended!
I come here fairly frequently, many times in the morning after parking my car in the McKinney parking garage that is right above the McKinney Marketplace where this Smoothie Factory is located. My favorite is the PB Powerhouse, which is probably too many calories to meet any new Years resolutions for health, unless you are trying to bulk up (as it is advertised for bulking up), but I just can’t drink enough of that peanut buttery goodness! I want to order a large every time, but since my hand to mouth habits have already bulked up my middle, I try to limit the size.
I’ve had some of the other smoothies and many of the extra «shots» There have been times in the afternoon when that «energy shot» was the only thing that kept me awake through hours of meetings discussing how we might need more meetings to discuss how things are going at work.
This place is also open later than the rest of the restaurants in the McKinney Tunnel. So when you are looking for something to fill that hole left in your tummy because you couldn’t get away long enough to eat a decent lunch, you can walk around and find some sandwich store that’s still open, or you grab a quick pick me up from the Smoothie Factory.
That last thing I’ll say about them is that they have great customer service. If they make the smoothie wrong, they will remake it for you. If you have read this far and didn’t just go there after the first paragraph, then you are taking too long to make a decision to get one. Just go for it :-)

Smoothie factory is a great, healthy snack option in the tunnels. They have fruity smoothies and green smoothies. And, they offer a happy hour between 3:00 — 5:00 for 30% off. Best afternoon snack downtown has to offer.

Under new ownership! Great customer service. Nice to you even if you don’t buy anything. Open 7a-​5p. The store was bought out on 10÷1÷14. Look for bigger and better things to come from this store!