Talk:Jamba Juice

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Food Portal
This article is within the scope of WikiProject Food and drink, a collaborative effort to improve the coverage of food and drink articles on Wikipedia. If you would like to participate, you can edit the article attached to this page, or visit the project page, where you can join the project and/or contribute to the discussion.
Start This article has been rated as Start-class on the quality scale.
Low This article has been rated as low-importance on the importance scale.
Business and economics Portal
This article is within the scope of the Business and Economics WikiProject.
Start rated as start-Class on the assessment scale
Low rated as low-importance on the assessment scale

Contents

[edit] Secret Menu

I am not sure if this belongs in the article, but it is an interesting note. From my experience, when ordering from the secret menu, the employees will sometimes quiz you on how to make it, before they will fullfill your order.

I, an employee, always ask them for a secret password if they ask for the secret menu. SpookyPig 04:23, 2 August 2007 (UTC)

In my case to make the Peanut Butter and Jelly, you take the Peanut Butter Moo drink, remove the chocolate soy base. Replace it with raspberry juice and you also remove the bananas.

Please post on how to create the other secret menu items.

I removed this section as it was a copyvio [1]. -- 12.116.162.162 18:52, 13 April 2007 (UTC)

Secret menu should definitely be on this page, but a better list with ingredients? i added secret menu to the links cause there was not even a mention of secret menu on the jambajuice page.


I think the information regarding the owners are innacurate, I find it hard to believe that Kenny G. co-owns this corporation.

I would like to know about their business practices. Do they operate like normal fast food chains with a high turnover? Or are they better to their employees in general? Do they advocate the use of unions in any way shape or form?

I could tell you from my experience, but I could not cite this. As for unions, no one mentions it. I believe the pay is higher than the top 3 fast food burger chains. There are lot of manager incentives.--Stevevance 15:26, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

There isn't a union. The turnover rate is normal because Jamba Juice employs mostly teenagers as their team members. Jamba treats their employees very fairly and the pay is competetive.

I also work at Jamba Juice - my store and all of the stores that I have heard about have a job turnover rate which is just as high as other fast food chains. This is also not anything that can be cited, just my personal experience, but there it is anyway. I don't believe that a union exists, although it is possible that something exists for managers and other people higher up the food chain than me. Solaraeus 06:22, 27 March 2007 (UTC)

This sounds far too much like an ad for the store - can someone who knows enough about it but is balanced write this from a more neutral point of view? It seems like it mentions only the benefits and not some potential criticisms - for example, are their prices the standard rate for fresh-squeezed juice?

What are the standard rates for fresh squeezed juices? If you can DIY, it's a heck of a lot cheaper, but we have commercial equipment that costs thousands of dollars that do it faster and more conveniently.--Stevevance 15:26, 19 June 2006 (UTC)
Well, one criticism that might be leveled at Jamba Juice is its choice of name, which someone in the history of the company obviously chose because it sounded fun and "ethnic" (in a condescending, world-music sort of way), when a little research would have revealed that, in Swahili, jamba means "fart." This results in a lot of unintentional humor not just in the company's name but in its marketing brochures, which invite customers to have a "Jamba team" come to their events and set up a "Jamba tent" where everyone can enjoy the "sights, sounds and fresh smells of Jamba" (no, I am not making any of this up). --Mr. A. 23:58, 7 May 2006 (UTC)
Can you cite that, in any way? mikey 02:45, 18 June 2006 (UTC)
Go into the store and pick up the brochure labeled "Go Go Events."--Stevevance 15:28, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

I think enough has been added so that it does not read like an advertisement.

I've removed a lot of extraneous information (the "fart" is definitely not necessary and neither is pricing - subject to change). I've also streamlined many parts and made it way more neutral. I will continue to edit this article. I do work at Jamba Juice (for 2+ years). I added a sentence that says we do not use organic products, because this question comes up a lot. If anyone has questions, please ask them here. --Stevevance 15:26, 19 June 2006 (UTC)

Jamba actually does use organic wheatgrass

The "fart issue" may not be necessary per se, but it is relevant, given the ridiculously vague story behind the name's origin. If the founders said, "We just made up something that sounded fun," well, more power to 'em . . . but if they're trying to claim that it actually means something, and they seem pretty clearly not to know what they're talking about, it makes sense to mention what the name really does mean. (The recently added sentence on "jammin'," on the other hand, is neither necessary nor relevant.) --Mr. A. 21:47, 20 June 2006 (UTC)


I work at jamba juice as well. The statement "we do not use organic products" is completely false. although many of the products are not organic, many are, off the the top of my head the peanut butter, most IQF fruit, and wheatgrass are ALL organic. Nsterui 06:18, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

Wouldn't these be labeled? I know our new peanut butter is all natural (peanuts+sald), but nowhere is it labeled as being organic. My store's supplier of wheatgrass does not grow it organically.--Stevevance 06:51, 6 July 2006 (UTC)
Most of them are labelled at my store. What region do you work in. I am in Southern California (San Diego Central). The wheatgrass here is definatley organic. NSTerui 20:59, 7 July 2006 (UTC)


Jamba Means: to celebrate —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.10.15.24 (talk) 22:56, 17 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Questions

Write your Jamba Juice questions here. give your environmentalanalysis, which environmentalforce do you fell is most critical for jamba juice and why —Preceding unsigned comment added by 203.135.13.198 (talk) 05:51, 18 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Criticisms

Write your Jamba Juice criticisms here, be they personal or overheard.[End of undsigned comment]

Why does this section even exist? Personal or overheard? How about documentable proof? I suggest we delete this part of the talk page.--Saintlink 23:02, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I love Jamba Juice and would love to own stock in it. Does anyone know how to do that? PM 7/27/06 This line needs a citation "It is known as one of the top smoothie stores worldwide." How can they be that when they only have ONE location outside of the United States? World != US

[edit] AFD debate link

This article was subject to a deletion nomination, it was withdrawn after a few hours. Sjakkalle (Check!) 07:04, 17 March 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Jamba juice logo.gif

Image:Jamba juice logo.gif is being used on this article. I notice the image page specifies that the image is being used under fair use but there is no explanation or rationale as to why its use in this Wikipedia article constitutes fair use. In addition to the boilerplate fair use template, you must also write out on the image description page a specific explanation or rationale for why using this image in each article is consistent with fair use.

Please go to the image description page and edit it to include a fair use rationale. Using one of the templates at Wikipedia:Fair use rationale guideline is an easy way to insure that your image is in compliance with Wikipedia policy, but remember that you must complete the template. Do not simply insert a blank template on an image page.

If there is other other fair use media, consider checking that you have specified the fair use rationale on the other images used on this page. Note that any fair use images uploaded after 4 May, 2006, and lacking such an explanation will be deleted one week after they have been uploaded, as described on criteria for speedy deletion. If you have any questions please ask them at the Media copyright questions page. Thank you.BetacommandBot 09:48, 5 June 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Origin of name

I removed the following from this section:

"Jamba" means "fart", "pass gas", or "break wind" in Swahili.[1]

Yes, I see the reference, but I really doubt that has anything to do with the name. Jobarts-Talk 03:54, 12 June 2008 (UTC)