Gloria Jean's Coffee (Torrance Del Amo)

In Torrance, there is the second largest shopping mall in California, Del Amo Shopping Center. Inside of the mall, there is a secret coffee and tea shop, Gloria Jean's coffee. The place is located in the south Del Amo Plaza, which is very lonesome location of the mall since many popular stores such as Guess, Levis, GAP, Express, Hollister, and Coach are located in the north Del Amo Plaza. Hence, many people do not know about Gloria Jean. Even though it is not well-known coffee franchise like Starbucks in the United State, It is very popular in Australia. The Strong sweet coffee smell attracted me to go inside of the store.


In side of the small store, there was full of the warm lights, and it had "bean" and "drink" bar. In between them, many coffee accessories such as cups, plates, spoons, syrups, hot chocolate powders, and snacks were displayed. Since it was my first time to visit, one of the workers suggested me a caramel apple nut chiller The small size is $4.00, Medium is $4.75, and Large is $5.50. I thought it was expensive that small coffee costs $4.00, but the small size was the same size as Starbucks’ grande.

Also the worker, Hose, explained to me that the caramel apple nut and pumpkin spicy chiller are the fall season coffee. At first, the chiller tasted a little bitter, then it turned to the strong apple and caramel taste. It was better than the most of the Starbuck frappuccino drinks. No offence to Starbuck fan!

The sweet smell came out from the bean bar. When I was there, many customers was waiting for getting beans. I asked which beans are the most popular ones. Hose, said Hazelnut, Toasted Almond, Butter Toffee, and Amaretto.

Everything was very impressive except few things:

1) There was no chair or table to sit and have a chat with friends.

2) It was too loud while the workers use the blender. Maybe, the blenders were broken…

3) Too complexes place setting. If there were waiting line for the bean bar, other customers cannot go though to drink bar because of the narrow entrance.