Aroma Joes

We just had a great experience at this Aroma Joe’s! My friend and I stopped by on our way home from Sunday River, having no idea what to order. We didn’t get the name of the employee helping us, but she was awesome! Explained everything and waiting for us for about 5 minutes to decide! Then when we picked it up at the next window, we thought we had ordered our coffees iced but probably didn’t say it/​assumed. The employee who made them took them right back and made them iced for us. She was so sweet. They both were. Very refreshing! Wish we lived closer, because I’d always go back to this location if we did.

Now that the weather is here my tastebuds wanted a cool treat. AJ’s was the place that hit the spot! I’ve been twice and have not been disappointed. The customer service is excellent. They now have a frequent buyer card to offer a free drink after five purchases– NICE! Pina Colada Smoothie-​delicious. FroJoe all I can say is YUM! Frozen cappuccino what more could you want on these awesome spring days!!! I’ll be back for sure.

Wow!!! What a great concept. Face to face ordering. Real made to order espresso, freshly brewed house blend, dark roast, hazelnut and French Vanilla, lattes and cappuccino.
You’ve got to try the Rush energy drinks.
55 flavorings to add to your coffee or Rush drinks. Plus breakfast sandwiches, oatmeal pastries and more.

Fantastic to see a coffeeshop open in this area on busy route 26; set up for serious double drive-​through action no-​less! Watched the construction for a while and finally got a chance to check it out.
Good news first: Friendly, fast and well trained baristas & the shop is set up with serious commercial espresso machines & grinders — always a good sign. The drive-​through setup is really nice and convenient as well and they’ve clearly selected good cups and lids to complement the grab and go drivers.
Espresso/​latte was very good as well. The only odd touch is the ludicrous sizes they offer — if you hit up the «serious» coffee nerd shops you’ll always get the side-​eye or a snobbish reply if you want anything larger than a 6oz or 12oz drink. Not here though — if you want your «Sticky Bunn» latte in a 32oz big gulp tub then by gosh they are gonna give you what you want.
The ham and cheese croissant was a miss though. It tasted good but looked like it had been run over by a steam roller. It was smashed almost perfectly flat and looked like a sad flaky drink coaster sitting in the little takeout bag. My only guess is that whatever system they have for slicing pastry needs a bit of fine tuning as this poor croissant had clearly been tortured in the assembly phase.
The menu and brand marketing is hilarious and reminds me of a bygone era. If you reanimated the corpse of Poochie from the Simpsons and told him to brand a coffeeshop chain I think you’d end up with a similar looking menu and brand identity. Every menu category is «Somthin’» — («Espressin», «Brewin», «Tweakin», «BreakFASTin», etc. etc.). The only thing missing from the menu is the word «extreme» repeated everywhere but they’ve got that covered when you want to add an «XX Freaky Flavor» syrup or «Espresso BOMB» to your drink. At some level you gotta think that the franchise operators must be a little bit embarrassed by what corporate is forcing on them.
I’ll be back, I need my fix.