FILTHY. This business is by it's very own operation the MOST filthy food or coffee shop i have EVER seen in my life. I wish that statement was an exageration. It is not. Walked in with my spouse on 8-27-20 at 3pm - to disturbingly dirty glass doors followed by floors filled with debris and crumbs plus dirty counters. There were 6 staffers behind the counter in some various degree of mocked movement / activity. SO confusing - in walking to the Foods Display - I scanned the Baked Food items - all of which seemed to be Museum Quality renditions of something that was placed in the case like it was a cruel joke to display hardened - spoiled and decaying food! On the top shelf was a supermarket variety of a raised sugar donut - wait....it gets better. There was a Fly sitting on this donut. It was the size of a horse fly. It appeared to be a joke - it was not moving....Now. in the course of the time it takes to read this up until now - NOT ONE OF THE SIX ASSOCIATES LOOKED AT US OR ACKNOWLEDGED US A GUESTS. Until - a dark haired female associate in jeans turned around from a task. I commented " There is a FLY on a donut - It looks like it is a prank or dead...it is not moving" The Associate replied ' " It's alive." She then patted the glass display case with the palm of her hand. And then remarked " It likes our donut." She then turned her back to us again and resumed her slow, mock - task movements. At this point - the staffer and 5 others continued ignoring us right in front of them - combined by the indifferent response and lack of concern for the filth around her, combined with the associates malaise, we knew "EXIT, Stage Left. ".
As we left , not one staffer looked up from the slow mock-like movements of slow shuffle of activities - surprisingly , - Or Not...No customers were even in the store. There were no cars in the drive up service lane. And - to think, this mall owner built out the location with a $1 Million dollar remodel of the buildings so this StarBucks could operate with a drive thru and service this neighborhood. Un. Believable.
Now this may not be news... to the others that have witnessed poor service and FLIES as noted in reviews that I saw minutes before posting this. But OMG, how does a company of this stature allow such a non-compliant, filthy, pathetic , indifferent management staff in a building to continue operations? Absolutely the worst food service setting I have ever seen in Southern Wisconsin. Starbucks, you should be ashamed of your operations at 434 Gammon Place, Madison WI. I - wish - this - were - an - exageration. Epic. read more