Recharge Cafe

It’s main perk is that it is close to two large employers and for one employer there is a direct door from the café to the employer. I personally don’t like coffee, so for me it is hot cocoa and Italian sodas. Their hot cocoa is okay, nothing to write home about. I usually don’t buy it for myself, my boss will buy me one, a raspberry hot cocoa. So I usually purchase a raspberry Italian soda. It is very bland, I don’t know how you can make these drinks bland. I used to buy their chocolate muffins, but I feel like they are surprise muffins, like they are made from zucchini bread or something. Just like someone is trying to make them a little healthier than they are.
So the only thing I’ll buy here are their large cookies. My coworker likes their house coffee with steamed milk and I don’t think she has ever complained about it. The only thing is that she agrees with me on the chocolate muffins.

The recharge has it’s good and bad points. The bad: overcharging for basic, bland, school lunch sandwiches in the fridge. Limited in drink offerings (a café that can’t do iced chai?). I got sick off their salads twice but they were tasty. The good: great deals on the specials, good soups, their grilled sandwiches are good especially the ones they invent, ginger peach tea!

Although I like to tell people that I worked as a barista in college, I usually neglect to mention the fact that I don’t particularly like coffee, and that the job in question was technically an on-​campus work-​study assignment. Regardless, I sliced deli meats and baked up Otis Spunkmeyer cookies with the best of them, and brewed up the best decaf mocha this side of the smokers’ bench.
Coffee Shop requirements, compliments of my memory circa 1996:
— espresso concoctions
— impressive collection of Torani syrups
— toasted bagels with cream cheese
— various sandwiches, chips and sodas, cookies
— low stage area, backed by fake brick mural
— fish tank
— echoes of Friends episodes gone by
It’s basic as basic can be, but as business park delis go, and for your extended break-​room pleasure, the Recharge Café is everything I’d expect. Minus the fake brick mural or fish tank. Which is for the best, believe.