Starbucks

Despite suffering from a problematic and highly unusual location — more on that, later — this Starbucks was very busy (at noon Sunday !), especially the drive-thru. Maybe that's why it's arguably the best staffed Starbucks I've seen in Maine...4 or 5 employees hard at work behind the counter. The staff was friendly, attentive, and particularly careful when putting aside items for in-store customers vs phone app orders. As two of us were reaching for the same 16 oz cup, they quickly called out my name without even a glance at the printed label! Location: they share an oddly shaped bldg. with Subway and a tobacco shop. Also, the drive-thru is partly blocked by one of two driveways onto the property. And if you're visiting the (surrounding) Cooks Corner mall, good luck even finding Starbucks b/c their signage is visible only from Gurnet Road. Worse, thanks to poor flow-design the mall parking lot offers no obvious/easy way to reach the Starbucks! You have to leave the mall's lot and find your way onto hectic Gurnet Rd...in my case, risking a quick u-turn against 5 lanes of traffic. 😆 .