Tastea Torrance (Drive-Thru) — Restaurant in Torrance

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This is the primary delivery method for Boba to most of the popiulation. Tastea, a drive thru Boba and other coffee type joint anonymously squeezed into mid-Suburban Torrance, would do well to hang inb there if at all possible, high rent be damned. They make a great product at a fair price, and there's plenty of daytime lunch and evening customer overspill from the local Torrance High to sustain a neighborhood favorite. Trust me, Torrance natives should welcome a mom and pop (if that is your true identity, Tastea owners!) in postmodern suburbia -- anything solid and with character helps. Torrance has always been an otherwise hopelessly beige and unremarkable architectural and cultural wasteland -- the local high school, ironically, being the one exception: it stars as a movie and TV loaction most would recognize at first glance as either the shoot spot of "Beverly Hills 90210" and the TV version of "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."

Students and faculty from the high school, few of whom would be mistaken for the hipster casts and crews of those dated TV productions, nevertheless need enough disoposable income to afford living in the highly prized school district. Tastea can survive on the customer base, just get involved in the neighborhood, I'll write you up more extensively if they can survive until...

We often go to Long Beach Tastea. We were excited that a Tastea location opened closer to us at Torrance. I walked in with a family members of 10 people of different ages. Upon entering, noone greeted us or approached us though they made eye contact from afar. The place wasn't busy at the time, there were no cars in the drive through, yet it seemed like that was everyone's focus was.

We kept on calling for employees for assistance because we have family members with diet restrictions due allergies yet noone came for a good while. Finally, a person wearing a hoodie, not in uniform, answered our questions. He was unfriendly and kurt.

We waited a while, after all, we ordered a lot of drinks. We paid about $75 for our orser. But I doubt it would it take that long if we had ordered at the drive through.

We finally received our order and they all came out right. The supervisor handed the drinks to us. She was friendly and had a smile on her face. But it was too late at this point as I was already annoyed.

I would not come back to this location again. Torrance has a lot of great boba tea places to...

PLEASE NOTE: this establishment does not adhere to the universal packaging standards of the international boba community: they do not use the sealed cups that we boba lovers have all grown accustomed to, but they instead use gas station-style cups and lids so that the drinks cannot be shaken/mixed.

And now, a brief poem:

Oh, drive-thru boba, what a sight to behold, With promises of sweetness and flavors untold. But alas, my experience was far from divine, A tale of disappointment in every boba line.

I skipped to the line with a heart full of glee, Expecting a whimsical boba memory for me. But alas, I was greeted with chaos and mess, And a staff that seemed full of tapioca-caused stress.

The menu was vast, oh so many to choose, Yet the line moved so slowly, I was sure to lose. I ordered my boba with hope in my eyes, But the taste was so bland, what a dreadful surprise! No burst of delight, no magic in my sip, Just a watery mess, I nearly lost my grip.

Oh, boba place, you've let me down, Your cups are a flop, your...