Tropical Smoothie Cafe

Honestly the WEIRDEST encounter I have EVER had at tropical smoothie (on capital between Aldi and Panera Bread). I came in and two males working Saturday at 8pm on 10/19/2024 were the only employees on duty. The store was absolutely silent. They did not greet us, they did not smile, the one person that took our order was as monotone as possible and only spoke when directly asked a question. Very robotic and low volume so you could barely hear him. As soon as we ordered they randomly started playing music at the loudest volume possible. Very odd and off putting behavior. He rang up the order and walked off leaving me to tap and take my own receipt from the register. He worked at sloth speed to make the order, at one point going in the back with the other guy leaving the store front unattended. After i ordered and forced him to use his vocal cords to answer a question regarding what particular smoothie contained, he never spoke again. When he eventually finished, he put the smoothies on the counter in our general direction with a blank face and walked off like a zombie. Didn’t say here is your order, have a nice night, nothing! Either this generation is completely lacking of social skills, or he was upset to have to work while at work, or maybe he is deranged, who knows but it was extremely awkward and uncomfortable to be in there with blaring music and miserable looking, silent, dead eyed workers. If I come back it will be when the bubbly lady employees are in there. Not the weird zombie guy employees from last night. At least not until they develop some semblance of social skills.