Einstein Bros Bagels

The service here is mediocre at best. Most times the person waiting on me mumbles, talks real quiet, and gets my order all mixed up.
Overall, their bagels are run of the mill, nothing too spectacular (I prefer small family owned bagel places but I come here when I’m in a hurry since it’s closer). I usually get the lox bagel but it comes with way too much capers. Thankfully it’s easy to flick off. If I’m not too hungry or not willing to pay the price of a lox, I’ll get a blueberry bagel with strawberry shmear — can’t really mess that one up, pretty simple.

I personally enjoy Einstiens. As a student, I have spent my fair amount of time at this Bagel joint. Depending on the time of day that you go, the time it takes changes. But they do a pretty good job at moving you through the line pretty quick.
There are quite a few places to sit, and its back to back with Jamba Juice.
As far as the food. I think the Bagels are good. My favorite are Cinnamon Raisin with peanut butter on it. The amount they change for peanut butter is a little dramatic in my opinion. But it tastes good… so I pay for it.
But they are all decently good. I also really like the bagel sandwiches, even though they are a bit pricy I think. The bagel thin sandwiches are really good!
I haven’t had coffee here, but I did try a strawberry smoothie… and it was way too sweet for me. There was way too much sugar and it had a very artificial flavor. Skip the smoothie here and go for a Jamba instead.
I do think that for the most part the workers and nice and friendly.
It is convient place if you are on the Chapman campus, but I wouldn’t go out of my way to eat here.

The place is located on a college campus. I couldn’t even park or go in. The Unilocal listing ought to reflect that so that non-​college students don’t waste their time thinking its a company store. What a waste of time to drive there.

This is a licensed Einstein Bros, not one that is operated by the company.
1) They don’t accept coupons
2) The prices are marked up (compared to corporate locations)
3) The employees don’t seem to know (or care) what they’re doing

Not a normal Einstein Bros– simply a student hall concession stand.
We stopped by here recently in our endless pursuit of a bagel in Orange County.
I had been to other Einstein Bros locations and thought they were tasty.
The selection was limited.

I am updating this review by giving it an additional star.
After my last visit, I wrote a complaint via the Einstein website and within a day or two I received a very nice and seemingly sincere apology from the manager. It was not at all the typical company form-​letter apology. She kindly offered to give me a replacement bagel the next time I am in the store.
Given my prior positive experiences with Einstein Bagel, I would definitely give them another chance.

I love love love their honey whole wheat bagel with honey almond schmear! so yummy!
the coffee is also to my liking
and Gabriela who is a shift leader there is extremely personable and ready to help whenever possible. I appreciated her help enough to want to write a review :)

This place is awful, The customer service is just sad, the food is tasteless and their packaging is awful. Their packaging is so bad that I dropped half of my pizza bagel and it landed all over my wallet before falling onto the floor. Spend your money elsewhere if you can help it.
I refuse to go here anymore because my experiences have been so bad.
The food is kinda expensive for what it is. I ordered a pizza bagel which cost almost $ 6 and it’s just sad how bad it tastes. You taste NOTHING BUT GREASE!

Awful needs to be redefined for this place! I ordered a sausage egg breakfast bagel and the eggs were obviously some combination of powdered or frozen first. I did not even recognize the animal that the sausage came from… lizard? Who knows, it smelled awful and tasted worse. I also ordered a hazelnut latte and it was unsweetened and the coffee was stale. I threw it out after 3 sips, I just couldn’t take it. Top it all off, it cost me $ 9.27! Starbucks is cheaper! Bruxie across the street would have been cheaper! What sharks! I threw away almost $ 10 on a breakfast I didn’t eat. Only bring people you hate here!

Has the best coffee on campus but with Starbucks not being so far away I very rarely waste hours of my life standing in line. The line takes forever and then it takes them over 5 minutes to make a latte even if you’re the only person who ordered a coffee drink. I once waited 12 minutes for a toasted bagel with nothing on it.

This will be a brief review.
I like Einstein Bros in general, but this location is lame. I don’t know if that is because it is located on a college campus and therefore they are not on the radar the way a typical location would be or what.
I would give the place three stars for the food because it’s okay, no better or worse than any other bagel place, and because it is extremely convenient to where I live (walking there takes literally three minutes for me) but I am giving this place two stars because of the poor service and generally uncomfortable experience I have had every time I have been here – which has been many.
The employees never ever smile, you will not likely get a greeting, a «thank you,» a farewell or anything like that. They seem generally confused, flustered and disorganized and they seem more or less annoyed at the presence of customers. It makes me feel like I shouldn’t even go there because it irritates them so much and I am ruining their day.
I have been here many times, but only on Saturdays and Sundays – maybe the workers are angry that they have to be there on a weekend and that’s why it’s such a bad time when I go? I don’t know. Additionally, the hours of operation are bizarre and random – even the employees don’t all actually know when they open (I have asked and the answer is literally one worker turning to face another to wait for an answer). How can you not know when your establishment opens and closes? I’m guessing they can open when they feel like it or at the whim of whichever clown is in charge that day?
At any rate this location is one you only want to visit if you have no other options at that particular moment unless of course you LIKE being treated like poo. =/

Disappointed at this place! Unilocalers are right
Girl in front of me ordered hot chocolate– COLD. I saw the lady (older hispanic lady) poured in milk, ice, and two pumps of chocolate syrup. She did not bother to stir it where the thick chocolate condensed to the bottom and yelled out the order. I felt really sorry for that girl.
Then I ordered ice tea. She charged me for the price of a ice coffee (I figured she could not find the ice tea entry on the computer). Ice tea is a huge disappointment. Tasted like old, overnight, stale lipton tea. Yuck! It had a bad after taste that coated my tongue for an hour after!

They have the best coffee on campus… but that doesn’t mean it’s good coffee.
It’s $ 2.25 for a bagel and cream cheese, which seems overpriced to me, and their sandwiches are merely acceptable in quality.
Their mocha latte tastes more like chocolate milk than espresso.
Service is decent.

This place is always crowded when I want to get food. So I recommend people to go when most people are in class, not during breaks. Their service is pretty slow. I have to wait a while to just get a toasted bagel. But the workers are really nice and helpful. I go here when I’m in need of a quick breakfast.

I think that it’s a little overprice for the quality and quantity of the food. The staffs are nice and helpful. There is just nothing really to comment because this is literally your typical bagel place.
The egg sandwiches are good, but again, it really should cost less for what it is. This is an on campus location, so just because its crowd doesn’t mean that it’s good. It just means that students don’t really have options.

Nice addition to Chapman’s Argyros Forum, aka Student Union.
I am not a fan of bagels in general, but this place usually does not have a line and you can grab a quick coffee. The customer service is superb. It is located in the lobby of the newly remodeled Argyros Forum, on the other side of Jamba Juice.
Bagels are AOK!