S J Caffe Express - Tumwater

This place is the best. My first choice for coffee.

I just tried this place a couple days ago and it was amazing. I tried a drink that one of the girls recommended off the valentine menu. I went two more times after that and got the same girl those two times and after only seeing me once she remembered me and offered me a punch card. The coffee is great and so are the burritos! Will definitely be my new go to coffee place

This is my favorite espresso stand. I’ve been coming here for years and the girls are so nice. Espresso is great and they make the best drinks. Kaylene is a sweetheart!

So over the course of the last few years, I have used S&J. Before covid happened, I used to go to this coffee stand every other day or every two days. I ordered the same drink in the same exact way every single time. The manager at this location, the short lady with the black hair, has always been very very rude. There was a mix-up at one point with how much they were charging for my drink and it was never consistent so one day I showed up al(I wish I had saved the punch card from back then because then I would have it to compare to this one. Anyhow, she ended up writing on my punch card the amount that my drink cost which at that time was $9.85. keep in mind that this was before covid and prices were a little cheaper than. I did not like that she treated me like a two-year-old when it came to ordering my drink and the price that it cost. She would speak to me very rudely and she made my experience very bitter. I have asked several people that go here and they have never encountered somebody writing the price of their drink on their punch card. Anyhow, fast forward to 2024. I stopped going to s&j 's for over a year because she left a bad taste in my mouth. The other girls were amazing and they still are but this lady needs to humble herself. I realize that I am only one customer but if you take $10 a day and multiply it by at least 150 days out of the year, it adds up. So,I stopped going there and I started going to Dutch Brothers where my drink, the same exact size with the same exact coffee in the same exact flavor, only cost $7.45. the atmosphere is way better the people are nicer and they don 't put notes in your account or write on your punch card (when they had one. I started going back to s&j 's because Dutch Brothers had closed and so for 4 months I only encountered her a few different times and each time she was still rude but there was never an issue with pricing. So, today I went to go get coffee and I pull out my punch card and to my surprise like, a freaking toddler again, the price is written on my card. She is still rude she still has a control issue and in my opinion she needs to be let go. I work with a lot of people and if I ever did this to one of my customers, I would hope that somebody would step in and make sure that I knew this was not okay. You don 't write the price on a customer 's punch card. You SHOULD talk to your staff and let them know that hey this regular that comes in, this is the price that her drink should be ringing up to. It is not my fault your staff does not know how to ring up a drink the same way every time. Why am I being made to feel like I 've done something wrong just to get a cup of coffee? So I guess it 's back to Dutch Brothers I go because they are open now. I genuinely like the roast of coffee that s&j 's uses but it 's not worth being treated like crap. Like I said, the other girls are fantastic and if it weren 't for this manager lady, I wish I remembered her name, I would still be paying three extra dollars just for my cup of coffee because I love their coffee. She ruins my day when I show up because she 's so rude. One last thing... I don 't t always get the same drink. So, to write a price on my card, is completely unfair.

My husband went to S&Js this morning to get us coffee usually they are quick to make coffee but this morning there was no one in line but a guy that the lady at S&Js she was talking to the guy my husband waited in line for 10 minutes he was so upset he left after waiting my husband says S&Js lost our business and will never go back what she did was not good customer service she knew my husband was in line and never came out to say I am sorry or anything the boss needs to talk to her if she doesn’t their going to lose customers