The quality of service has gotten atrocious. I’ve had to wait for my order today because the worker accidentally handed my food to someone else. It took them another time to heat up a simple blueberry muffin. Plus my drink didn’t taste like it should normally. This morning crew is super inefficient.If you can just order online and go and don’t order her at the store.The last few times I came here they said people they were short staffed and overwhelmed with too many orders.
View from a table. The chunky autumn leaves are falling & it's a great chill vibe at Peet's. Good people work here! They are super kind & thoughtful.
Popular place! Friendly and helpful staff. Only street parking on a busy street.
Very friendly and helpful server. The chorizo flat bread was not as spicy as we would have preferred but still lots of good flavor.
Thanks for being friendly to our puppy today. ?
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this is eric.
This branch of Peet’s was a nice space when you could sit indoors and gaze out the window instead of working. It’s a little lower on my list during lockdown because the outdoor seating is pretty exposed to the speed racers and grumpy rich farts tooting their horns on College Ave. Still, it has several things to recommend it at the moment. The manager has been kind to, or helped people in various ways while I’ve been there and the atmosphere is pretty good (friends had issues with previous managers). He also introduced some work-arounds that allowed people to bring their own mugs. This should be done everywhere by now – even at the height of the pandemic, Covid wasn’t being transmitted through touching surfaces to any significant extent. The other thing I like about Peet’s right now is the Everything Plant-Based Sandwich that was recently introduced. It’s a sausage patty from Beyond Meat, combined with JUST vegan egg and vegan cheddar, all on a thin everything bagel. I don’t quite understand why coffee chains have been so slow to introduce vegan products. Starbucks introduced an Impossible Breakfast Sandwich that was a confusing combination of a vegan patty from Impossible Foods with real eggs and cheese. It seems weird that they didn’t make it fully vegan – I guess it’s just a result of cold-hearted market analysis. Anyhoo – I’m glad that Peet’s has introduced this item and I have to say that it’s pretty good. Beyond Meat makes the best meat substitutes right now, in my opinion, and also one of the most ethical options. I’ve been trying a lot of plant-based products at home and review them on my new site - Ethical Bargains. This was my first time trying JUST’s vegan egg and I really like it – it’s very similar to a chicken egg. Coffee and Wi-Fi are both consistent. I’m also giving the Peet’s 3.5 out of 5 “Green Stars” for social and environmental impact, based on this: • Reasonable selection of vegetarian items and now one good vegan sandwich and a vegan brownie. • Beyond Meat (who makes the Everything Plant-Based sandwich patty) rates highly in my book (4.5 Green Stars) • This Peet’s branch allows customers to bring their own coffee mugs again & gives a 25 cent discount for using one. • Peet’s disposable cups and lids are now both compostable. This helps quite a bit in terms of waste sorting, because everything can go into the compost bin. Let’s face it, at many coffee places (hello, Starbucks!) customers’ trash pretty much ends up in random bins. It would require a long discussion but I think compostable lids + cups are the best option (after ceramic or bringing yer own mug) • I appreciate that Peet’s always had a policy where they’d give you your drink without a lid, allowing you to choose whether or not you needed that piece of plastic to cover your drink for 10 minutes. • Peet’s main coffee roastery in Alameda is certified LEED Gold– the first in the US. (LEED = Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) • Peet’s have been a bit better than other US chains (Starbucks, Philz) at introducing coffee that’s organic, songbird friendly, or processed by the natural method, etc. • Las Hermanas blend is “100% women-produced, Fair Trade certified.” Burundi Turashobora is also women-produced. In 2019, Peet’s helped establish the Women's Center for Entrepreneurship for women coffee famers in Columbia. • Peet’s has now merged with Jacobs Douwe Egberts (JDE) and the joint venture had its IPO in 2020 on the Euronext Amsterdam stock exchange. JDE scores poorly for ethics, for example on Ethical Consumer. • Peet’s sells coffee pods (and JDE sells two machines that use pods), encouraging plastic waste. • Peet’s doesn’t reports enough on social and environmental impact (e.g., coffee pricing) for a company of this size. So a mixed bag from Peet’s: Better than Starbucks or Philz but not as good as many local spots. Interested in writing green star reviews? If so, please check out the Green Stars Project.
Waited 40 minutes for an iced latte and had to leave and no one could tell me where my drink was. Waste of money and poor experience.
Peetnik since 1976. Fact: The Green Mermaid is a spinoff from Peets.