Robeks

More water and ice than fruit. Sweet «juice”/ sugar added. This place is terrible. Don’t waste your money like I just did.

They actually open at 10am on Saturdays! Good stuff. There much have been just enough demand for it from individuals like me.

I came in shortly after 8am and they were understaffed, only one employee. So I waited while he did prep work, then waited while he finished someone else’s order. Then he took my order and then two other order that came in after me. He made their orders first while I was still waiting for mine! What a jerk.
I wonder if I had the wrong skin tone and he was being racist. In any case, I Won’t be going there again.

Terrible Service, the employees were very unfriendly. Additionally my shake was made just juice, no fruit. When I asked for the managers number they wouldn’t give it to me! I settled with getting a refund for my terrible smoothie.

The cashier was R.U.D.E. 08/​04/​2015 at about 6:30pm. I walk in, my FIRST time here at any Robek’s juice and i notice a nice 50% off sign and i ask the cashier what those were for. «Smoothies only.» Very curtly and not like she wanted to work there. Then i ask what she would recommend or what are some popular drinks. «There is a menu above me, look at [fan favorites or something]» very cold answer especially because it was my first time and i wanted an opinion not a «get out of my face sir» tone.
I will not be coming back here any time soon even if the smoothies are «good» and 50% off (probably because they have horrible service and are trying to make up for it)
2 stars for the SMOOTHIE and ESTABLISHMENT (very clean) ALONE, customer service brought the 5 stars down to a 2.

A little too expensive, with a few too many sugar bombs disguised as health tonics, you’re better served sticking to the handful of veggie and fruit juices.

Place says they are open from 7am to 9pm, but when I took a lyft there at 830 am they were closed. Not nice to lie about your business hours.

Fake healthy shakes. Loaded with sugar. The main protein shakes has 89 grams or equivalent to 20 teaspoons of sugar. Advise to avoid this place and just eat ice cream.

I realize that Robeks is a chain and kinda weird for me to review — but I gotta give props to the guys that work at this smoothie and juice joint. I recently did a 10 day juice cleanse and I came to this Robeks nearly everyday to get my juices.
Let’s be honest — juicing things like spinach and kale is such a pain in the butt. In fact, the reason I didn’t buy a juicer was because places like this are around. The staff here never rolled their eyes or hid in the back when they saw me come in. They never acted annoyed or impatient or rude. I like that kind of customer service. Robeks is just awesome in general because they make fresh juice and they should be capitalizing on this with the juice trend that’s been coming around as of late. But when you couple that with people who do their job well and don’t take short cuts or cop an attitude, you’ve got a repeat customer out of me.
Even now, with my juice cleanse over, I still stop in once in a while to pick up some juice to replace a meal. So I just want to say thanks to the guys who work here for being awesome.

I must need a little more romance in my life. The Rasberry Romance smoothie is my favorite… it is Dee-​licious, DEE-​lightful, DEE-​lovely!
Incredibly fresh and tasty, the service is pleasant and fast and the price is nice!
Need more locations!

Good product, horrible service

Despite walking past this location nearly everyday going to and from work, I was just introduced to Robeks at the recommendation of my coworkers. I stopped in one day before heading to a night class and was pleasantly surprised. I hoped the smoothie would act as a dinner replacement and give me energy to stay awake through a 3.5 hour class after working for 9 hours — it did!
So far, I have had the Infinite Orange and Berry Brilliance and both were nicely flavored, but not too sweet. I have several more weeks of class, so I am sure I will be trying more flavors too.
My only gripe is that the staff isn’t the most friendly and thus on my first visit, I pretty much had no idea what my options were (in terms of the boosts or flavor suggestions) and just picked at random. The smoothies do run a bit expensive — a large runs about $ 6.50 with tax. I also was not aware of a frequent punch card that they offer until a coworker mentioned it to me today; I’ll be sure to pick one up at my next visit for sure!

While this establishment isn’t as exotic as some of the other venues here on Unilocal,I still think it warrants a once-​over.
Like most businesses in Farragut, this Robeks caters to the 9-​to-​5 crowd: its hours are relatively short and it isn’t open on the weekend and public holidays. Instead, Robeks is tailored to cater to the busy lunch crowd and is able to fullfil each order
So I’m assuming you like smoothies, so let’s talk. Each smoothie consists of three parts: the smoothie itself, a toping of your choice, and also a protein or nutrient «booster». (I usually opt out of the booster.)
Like the other reviewers have noted, it’s difficult to assess the freshness of the product. While there fresh fruits arrayed throughout parts of the restaurant, what you’re actually served is served out of what might as well be a surplee machine. Even if you were to be generous and assume that the product was made from fresh products and frozen that very morning, you’re still left wondering, assuming, that your smoothie is actually glorified processed foodstuff.
It’s not fair to Robeks, if their product is in fact all natural and freshly made on site, but it certainly isn’t fair to health-​conscious consumers who are using smoothies as lunchtime meal substitues. I’d easily give this restaurant another star, if not more, if the meal was prepared in front of me with fresh fruit and ice. But I digress.
So yes, why the somewhat premade nature of your meal itself may leave you wanting, the attentive nature of the oh-​so-​pleasant staff and the taste of the resulting smoothie actually redeem this operation.

Very lackluster smoothie shop. All of the ingredients seemed to be frozen when they were dishing them out, which I believe I confirmed with my tastebuds. I got the Hummingbird. I went with the large (32 oz) and they put in 4 full scoops of mango sorbet. Sh*t, if I wanted a drink entirely of sugar-​based desserts I would have gone to pinkberry for some huncalfroyo.
So with a smoothie made 50% of sorbet, 20% ice and 30% frozen fruits, you can imagine there wasn’t much taste to speak of. Although the description boasted flavors like pineapple and banana, all I could taste was watered down mango sorbet.
I might be back (sadly; only due to convenience), but even as far as chains go, Smoothie King is far superior.

There’s not really much I can say — it’s a smoothie place! It’s about the same as any other chain smoothie place I’ve been to, and about the same price. I seem to only want a smoothie if I’m getting sick — and that’s exactly why I came in! When I get a cold I need all the vitamin C I can get, and anything cold on my sore throat makes it oh-​so-​much-​betta!
They also sell sandwiches, cookies and other stuff but I’ve never tried any of it. I just come here for one thing — a smoooooothie!

Does this happen to you? The weather changes in an instant and BAM — your cravings change, too? Its as if there is an automatic switch in my system, that once it is warm enough to wear shorts and flips, all I want is fruit. Any and every kind. Especially liquefied.
Hence Robeks.
I feel bad giving just 3 stars, ’cause its really more of a 4 star place… but in all honesty, it is not as good as, lets say, the almighty Jamba. Smoothie King is also solid. But competitors aside, Robeks is pretty darn good and hits the spot in terms of those summer taste bud cravings.
I grabbed a Banzai Blueberry regular smoothie — with tax, just over $ 5 — and it was perfect for my craving (however, certainly not as filling as Jamba smoothies — I feel like there is a lot more sorbet/​sherbet and yogurt that goes into these smoothies than fruit). I really wanted something with raspberries, but none of the smoothies included fresh raspberries — to get that flavor, raspberry sherbet is used in shakes. Kind of a shame that for more expensive fruits (papaya, pineapple, etc) a flavored desert is used as opposed to the fruit itself.
What I like is that there are plenty of healthy add-​ons (ie., creatine, soy protein, wheat grass, vitamins, etc) — the first one is complimentary, each additional is 50 cents.
Staff here is also very kind. I walked in at 6:59, not knowing they closed at 7, but the two dudes working were so sweet and didn’t rush me in my indecisive state of mind.

WTF is up with the new summer hours. Closed on weekends. Boo!!! I really wanted a smoothie and I like Robeks. But alas they were closed.
Isn’t it hot in DC during the summer? They serve cool refreshing smoothies. I guess you’re stuck with frozen yogurt this summer.

That was some good juice! I had the Acai Energizer, which absolutely serves as a meal replacement. It had acai, apple juice, strawberries, blueberries, pineapple sherbet, non-​fat yogurt, ice, and it comes with two supplements – the power-​pak and the soy protein. I paid $ 6 for the 32 oz, and I am now full. We’ll see how long that lasts.
They have some decent looking wraps and salads on the menu, if you want real food with your juice. They also have shots of wheatgrass if you want to really get a rush.
The people here were helpful. At least, I think they were. I couldn’t really hear them over the roar of the blenders.

This Robek’s hooks it up dirty in the smoothie department. You can get a 32 oz. for $ 6ish.
You have to know what smoothies to get. They have a fairly large selection. I recommend the «Big Wednesday.»
Also another nice plus to this Robek’s is that they give you free boosters (immuno-​defense, protein, etc.). Even if these are fake, it’s still a nice business proposition to hand them out free to clients.
*These smoothies are huge, but should under no circumstance serve as meal replacements.

Some places make smoothies worth $ 4-​$ 6. I mean, they’re not really worth it, but they’re good enough to convince you they are. This place is not one of them.
My $ 4 smoothie was teeny tiny and thin. It seriously tasted like a slurpee, except more expensive.