Z Beans Coffee - Macon

Z Beans is the best remote working location! I got the chicken salad sandwich and toasted Marshmallow latte today. Both were perfect in the rainy weather... and the music in this coffee shop is truly top tier coffee shop vibes. Anna was the bartista behind the counter and she was so sweet. I LOVE Z BEANS!

Nice coffee shop. Best hot chocolate I've had at a coffee place. Wife got a frappe equivalent, which was tasty, but a little light on coffee flavor. Would be 5 stars overall if the drinks were stronger.

Roomy coffee shop with chill vibe. Staff this morning seemed somewhat indifferent to the handful of customers they had, like they were just going through the motions. The food, however, is fantastic and the biscuit was one of the best I've ever had! Coffee was smooth and delicious, and really neat to see their story posted on the wall.

Heard this was a local favorite and was very disappointed. The quality of coffee was just bad. We had ordered a mocha and a hot cocoa and they were nearly indistinguishable. Could not even taste the espresso or milk given how watery it was. Hot cocoa also came cold the first time so we had to reorder it. They also left the mocha on the counter without calling it again so we waited forever for it. On top of that their processing of orders was very inefficient. It was a busy day but there were too many red flags to give it a pass for it.

I'm only giving this place two stars because the staff was nice. Hopefully this was a one-off, but this happened to be my first time here and I was very disappointed. The mocha I ordered tasted like burnt chocolate, meaning they're probably brewing the espresso at too high a temp. To top off the bad experience, I ordered a chicken salad croissant sandwich and a cookie, and they were both expired!!! Look, I understand not wanting to throw out food due to profit loss, but that's just part of the business. Just because a holiday fell around the expiration date, it doesn't make the food last longer. But what I'm most disappointed with is that they just covered up the old expiration sticker with a later dated sticker to make it look like it would last another week so they would be able to make money off it. That certainly didn't work though, I smelled them both and knew right away that something was off. Sadly I just took my order and left because I was just stopping by on my road trip and I didn't get a chance to ask for different items or a refund. This is definitely one coffee shop I cannot recommend to anyone....