The junior class of 2015 uses Jamba Juice to fundraise on Fridays each month. However, the smoothie retailer’s continuing unreliability isn’t making that very convenient. Jamba Juice’s latest mix up on Aug. 23 wasn’t the first one. As the first fundraising event of the 2013 – 2014 school year, Jamba Juice showed up with an inadequate amount of smoothies three minutes before the bell to end lunch rang.

Time was the main factor of the situation. Instead of being on campus by 11 a.m., set up and ready for the students as ASB had asked, Jamba Juice had planned on leaving their store at 11 a.m., according to Natalie Armenian.

Jamba Juice employees planned on leaving their store at 11 a.m.; however, that didn’t happen, and they ended up leaving much later than that. They had originally only pre-made one box of smoothies instead of the four boxes ASB had requested. Producing two more boxes of smoothies with 45 smoothies in each consumed even more time, making them more late than they already would have been.

All ASB could do was call Jamba Juice to figure out when they’d be on campus and try to hold off expectant students for half an hour. Meri Galfayan, Junior Class Vice President, said, “The deliverer called me and said that he was on his way and ‘on his way’ took him 45 minutes. He got there at 11:47 and by the time we got everything out, it was 11:48 and we sold 60 smoothies in two minutes.”

Though the money aspect of the situation wasn’t a complete disaster, the amount of smoothies sold on Friday was much less than the amount of smoothies expected to be sold. According to Galfyan, last year’s juniors sold over 100 or 150 depending on the day. “I’m sure if they brought all of the four boxes we ordered, and there’s 45 in each, and we had the entire 30 minutes, we would’ve sold out,” she said.

Events along these lines have occurred in the past with Jamba Juice. Once last year, they didn’t show up at all. During their latest inconsistency, they forgot straws and the smoothies were already halfway melted.

So why stick with an inconsistent retailer for something as important as money for the junior class? ASB Treasurer Natalie Armenian explained, “I don’t know what we’re going to do next, because we’ve looked into other juice places, but they don’t have as good a profit because you have to pay for everything they bring you, but with Jamba Juice you only pay for what you sell.”