You should not bring food that is not kosher into a kosher restaurant. This affects the status of kosher for that restaurant. Many people at coffee bean bring in food from other places. and they want to use the plates and tables for their outside food. However, they have allowed this for the longest time, so if you keep kosher, coffee bean is not the place to visit because between their employees and customers they break the kosher rules all the time. Look for Jeffrey Coedest on Facebook for pictures. This place had to change their dishes in summer 2011 for breaking kosher rules and then they refuse to change their dishes again in March 2012 when allthough they are officially kosher because they have the certificate, they are technically not. Their dishes and microwave are not currently kosher because even though I presented them with pictures of the violations they decided to save the money and look the other way. DON'T BELIEVE COFFEE BEAN WHEN THEY SAY THEY ARE KOSHER: THEY ARE NOT! So whomever you are complaining, you are in good company keep visiting Coffee Bean and bringing your food in there as they are not kosher anyways. That is the reason I stopped frequenting their store.
