Tropical Smoothie Cafe

Are used to eat at this location several times a week. Recently they were bought out by another person after the owner fell ill. Now I don’t eat hear anymore. The owner nickel and dimes you on everything and they make the sandwiches and smoothies as cheap as possible. They even bought a microwave to cook the sandwiches in so that they would come out faster but they just come out cold in the middle.

I highly recommend you avoid this establishment. We walked in for lunch and they had no menus to order from… that was clue number one to run away. We then went to look for a table and every table in the place was disgustingly filthy dirty. I of course was stupid enough to ask someone to clean a table instead of running away. The employee came over and looked at us like we were crazy for asking, she was extremely rude — but she had a typical teenage attitude when working someplace that sucks.
Needless to say at this point we left. I can only imagine how clean the back of the house must be.
This immediate area is suffering from decent places to go– it might be cursed.

Only stopped in for a berry smoothie and it was pretty good, but a bit over priced. They will customize it for you as I requested for only half the sugar, they said they can do no sugar to extra… so service was very good.

Decent food but pricey for what you get. The service is ok. Overall, nothing about tropical smoothie stands out as either fantastic or terrible.

I used to be a Tropical Smoothie die hard. It was one of the first things I looked for after changing jobs/​locations. I’ve actually been to this particular location one other time but didn’t recall the «issues» until we stopped in again for second lunch, err… snack.
Unfortunately, this location didn’t have any menus accessible so we had to stand at the counter to stare up at the over-​sized menu above the registers. Since they have changed their menu (AGAIN) it must have taken me too long to decide what to order because the cashier was full of sighs.
I have always gotten the Hawaiian Breeze smoothie and a half hummus veggie (sandwich) deal because I can easily fill up on the smoothie but figure I should eat something, too. Due to the menu change and impatient staff I got flustered and ordered the Turkey Bacon Ranch (read: anti hummus veggie). It wasn’t bad, just disappointing. The flavor was salt; not turkey or bacon. Just salt.
The BF ordered a Chipotle Chicken Club flatbread and I WISH I would have taken a photo. There was, and I am being generous here, 4 – 5 half strips of chicken. I don’t even recall any bacon but I do know we were both feeling sub-​par after our visit.
The smoothie was pretty much the same, though I don’t imagine a 3 ingredient smoothie could change all that much. I am sure the menu gets revamped frequently for a reason but I have to assume it’s because what they are producing isn’t keeping their doors open. Sometimes it’s best to focus on what you DO know rather than guess at what you don’t.

Waited 30 minutes for a taco with no one in the store, and it wasn’t even that good, totally not worth it.

Pretty over priced, but keep your eye out for coupons in local coupon magazines…
Now really. this place is obviously ran by high schoolers, where this is their first job, they are super uninterested in greeting you and stare with that blank stare until you decide to spit out your order, then they will probably mess it up. BUT, you’ll probably get an extra smoothie or sandwhich out of that. If you ask for «No tomatoes».it will probably come with extra tomotoes. Strawberry smoothie often becomes a mango smoothie.ect. so have fun with that.
Personally-​I prefer subway or Publix subs, more filling, and cheaper :)

Really, it’s not a bad place and I guess if I had been there for a smoothie I might have given it a different rating? I don’t know. Reviews at the other TSC locations in the area rave about the great food as well as the smoothies, so I decided to stop in for lunch.
So I went up to the very colorful counter and ordered a turkey bacon club from the disinterested teenager at the register, along with chips and a drink — which came out to more than $ 9. A couple of minutes later my name was called by the second disinterested teenager and I brought my sandwich back to the table [see photo].
It was warm and tasty, but I left unsatisfied. The turkey was prepackaged deli meat and the sandwich overall was just too small for the price point. I thought that the size would be okay — lately I have been trying to watch my portion sizes and after the initial difficulty, my body adapted to the smaller servings and I was filling up on less and less food. And yet, I was more hungry after this $ 9+ sandwich than I normally would be after a $ 6 6-​inch sub combo at Subway.
There’s a pizza company that caters to our workplace once a week or so, and if he hadn’t run out of pizza right before I got back, I would have brought a slice back to my desk.
But as I said, the food tastes good as long as you have a very small appetite. As a matter of fact I will likely come back to try a sandwich with a smoothie — the two together might very well do the trick.