CAFELITO — Restaurant in Key West

Edited review:

First I couldn’t say much about this place because waiting was so intense. But go get something here !

First I cannot tell, because waiting +25minutes for only ordering a coffee played to much on my patience and I left to move on (on Saturday morning before 9AM).

No shade and very slow processing of the orders. The queue though was not long.

No info, no interaction, no waiting displayed… I did not appreciate this.

For this I recommend the owner to work on a solution or for the customers to skip and go along since there is plenty of other coffee places down the road.

So far all over I do not recommend except if you have plenty of time to kill. Good luck.

Edit of another visit three days later :

First of : thank you for your reply. I think it’s important to be aware of what is going wrong from the customers point of view, in order to improve the business running. This comment is not intend to be ‘roasting’ or whatsoever.

So, today (Tuesday) I showed up an hour earlier than for my first try, so before 8.

There we’re 4 people waiting, but it was only two orders. Still I waited 15 minutes until it was my turn.

Again, I only ordered a Collada (yes with sugar – let the Cubans do it for you in their way, you won’t be disappointed !). It was a good coffee (3,40$ for locals).

Though, I actually was next in the queue, another person arriving after me, was welcome to order before I did.

Well, that is just a frustrating detail, especially if the main reason for my comment is the waiting time. This doesn’t help.

Anyhow, the lady at the window was nice and welcoming, just right (meaning not too much, not too less) the way a costumer relationship imo should be.

I hope this may help you figuring out how to improve your tasks.

Good luck for the future !

Again : i recommend, good coffee, but waiting can be very long...

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