Starbucks

My daughter & I went to shop at the Alpine Albertsons this evening and since the Starbucks in the store was closed, we went to the Starbucks in the plaza next to the store. Although they had five staff members working at the time, the service was painfully slow - it took well over ten minutes to produce a single mocha even though there were not many customers in the place. Cafe Adesso at the other end of Alpine is a much better place with high quality and better pricing and it is locally owned!

This shop is in our local Albertsons. Get great service, and they always get our drinks perfect. A few months ago, a friend from out of town came down to visit us. She likes to collect the hard plastic tumblers with the city name of places that she visits. During her visit, we checked many Starbucks around San Diego for a tumbler that said "San Diego" on it. We could not find one at any of the Starbucks that we checked. After she left, I asked the people that work in the Starbucks inside of our local Albertsons if they could please let me know if they get any of the tumblers when I am there shopping. After about a month of checking multiple Starbucks around the area, they stopped me when I came in the store to do some shopping to let me know that they had got some of the tumblers that say "San Diego" on them. I found out that they had been checking around as well for me to find one for my friend. They had set one aside for me a few days before as they knew that I came in every few days. My friend was extremely excited and thankful when she reverie the tumbler in the mail from me. I want to thank the crew at the Albertsons Starbucks in Alpine, Ca. for going out of their way to make someone that they did not know very happy. I continue to go to that location when possible.