Edit: I swear these 5-star reviews are requested by staff or incentivized, because I do not understand the amount of *very specific* perfect ratings and it's frustrating to see what appears to be a lack of honesty. 09/08/26
I've hesitated to write this review because every time I’ve gone, I’ve thought, “They’re new, they’ll get it together.” But after 10+ visits, I don’t think I can keep chalking it up to being new.
For some context, I managed a restaurant doing around $1.2 million in business for 2.5 years, starting when I was about 22. I mention that because I understand how difficult it can be to manage a young staff, train people properly, maintain standards, and keep things moving during a rush. I also understand the difference between a new team still learning and a location that is simply lacking structure and management.
Every time I’ve come through (besides once), the music has been blasting so loud I can hardly hear myself giving my order. I’ve struggled through asking basic questions about the menu, and after more than 10 visits, I still have yet to have an employee be able to answer the questions I’ve asked. Many of the employees are genuinely sweet, so I don’t necessarily fault them individually. But at some point, the fact that the staff doen't know the menu well enough to answer basic questions falls on management, and it has become ridiculously frustrating.
This last visit was what finally pushed me to write the review.
The wait times are already incredibly long, even when there are maybe five cars in line. Today I ordered one drink, and it was made incorrectly. It was taken back to the drink station, and from where I was sitting, the entire area was complete chaos.
Employees were running and sprinting around, ice was being thrown at people, things were being dumped onto the floor, there was obvious flirting and joking around, employees standing around doing literally *nothing* while others were busting tail to pick up their slack, on their phones, and someone’s boyfriend/girlfriend just hanging out in the employee area. There were also several things I noticed involving cleanliness, hygiene, and general food-service practices that I’m not even going to get into here. It genuinely felt less like a professionally managed workplace and more like a group of kids left unsupervised.
Then, instead of remaking my incorrect drink, they took it, dumped it into a blender, added a bunch of ice, and brought it back out to me. No one stopped to ask, “What was actually supposed to be in this?” So it came back to me again, still wrong, the wrong size, and now just blended.
I finally had to very plainly say, “Can we please get my drink remade, so I know it’s done properly? I just watched him dump it into the blender and add a bunch of ice to it?" I had to mention this more than once.
They remade it, brought it out, and finally I could leave. Over 14 minutes for one drink.
And the frustrating part is that this visit wasn’t some bizarre one-off experience. It was just the most extreme version of the same things I’ve seen repeatedly: incredibly slow service, inconsistent drinks, employees who don’t know the menu, and a lack of professionalism and supervision behind the counter.
Like I said, I genuinely did not want to write this review. I saw all the positive reviews and started wondering if I was somehow just catching them on bad days. But after 10+ visits, I don’t think that’s the case.
There are some really sweet employees here, and I actually feel for the ones who are working hard because you can visibly see a specific few picking up everyone else’s slack. But this location desperately needs experienced management, better training, clear expectations, and someone consistently supervising what is happening behind that counter. At this point, it feels like they need an adult in the room.