anything new from Boba lately?
Question · by birthday_walker_south · Member since Jul 2026 · 100 posts · 7w7 weeks ago
Bubble tea store in San Jose, CA
4.3 · 697 reviewsOpens today at 11 AMOpens today at 11 AM
Cozy cafe serving bubble tea in diverse flavors, plus rice & noodle bowls in a minimalist interior.
Eligible to offer 20% cashback to customers who shop here.OrbitBack
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What Boba offers, what it costs, and what people come for.
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No code detected[Photo 4]When it's quiet, where to park, and what's nearby.
Wednesday or Thursday, before noon.
Busiest Friday and Sunday from 2 to 8 PM.
Samuthr Thai Restaurant is next door for Thai food.
Nearby places from Google Maps, read Sep 20, 2026.
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
Closed now. Busiest Fri and Sun, 2 to 8 PM.
What reviews, press and directories say about Boba.
4.3from 697 reviews on Google
While Boba Bar has standout drinks like the taro smoothie, inconsistent quality and service issues detract from the overall experience. Boba Bar offers a trendy atmosphere with a busy vibe, particularly during peak hours. Customers appreciate the outdoor seating for people-watching, but many report long waits and a cramped interior. The experience can be hit or miss, with some drinks praised while others are criticized for poor flavor.
Listed on 2 of the 20 directories AI reads.
The AI Score is out of 100, read from 8 signals across search and AI.
28 San Jose avg
Signal and how much it countsBoba
Every business is scored the same way, and nobody can pay for a better score.
Boba, as AI sees it. Blue signals help Boba, and red ones hold it back.
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The page ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity and Google read about Boba. The code version is exactly what their crawlers get.
Local AI Registry · Bubble tea stores in San Jose, CA · Editorial
By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 14, 2026.
Published September 14, 2026 · Updated September 14, 2026 · Machine-readable version below
Boba Bar is a bubble tea store in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 38 of 100, which is poor.
What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks
| Fact | Value |
|---|---|
| Type | Bubble tea store |
| Address | 310 S Third St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 11 AM to 10 PM |
| Phone | (408) 298-9968 |
| Rating | 4.3 across 697 reviews on Google |
| Quietest time | Wednesday |
| Updated | September 14, 2026 |
Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.
| Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Location info | Address | 310 S Third St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | Cozy cafe serving bubble tea in diverse flavors, plus rice & noodle bowls in a minimalist interior. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Boba Bar | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 298-9968 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Services | Service | Bubble tea | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Flavored bubble tea | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Noodle bowls | AI guess | |
| Services | Service | Rice bowls | AI guess | |
| Links | https://instagram.com/bobabarsj | AI guess | Our record | |
| Links | Website | https://www.bobabarsj.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
Address: 310 S Third St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA. Phone: (408) 298-9968. Hours: Mon to Sun 11 AM to 10 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)
From Google Business Profile: "Cozy cafe serving bubble tea in diverse flavors, plus rice & noodle bowls in a minimalist interior."
Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Sunday. From the popular times on its Google listing.
| Place | Type | Distance |
|---|---|---|
| Samuthr Thai Restaurant | Thai restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Phin & Bowl | Asian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| La Victoria Taqueria | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Entre Comales | Fast food restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Jack in the Box | Fast food restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Pizza My Heart | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk |
4.3 average across 697 reviews: Google 697. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)
While Boba Bar has standout drinks like the taro smoothie, inconsistent quality and service issues detract from the overall experience. (AI guess, from 697 reviews.)
Listed on 2 of the 20 directories we checked.
| Directory | Listed |
|---|---|
| Angi | Not listed |
| Apple Maps | Not listed |
| BBB | Not listed |
| Birdeye | Not listed |
| Chamber of Commerce | Not listed |
| Cylex | Not listed |
| DexKnows | Not listed |
| Listed | |
| Foursquare | Not listed |
| Hotfrog | Not listed |
| Manta | Not listed |
| MapQuest | Listed |
| MerchantCircle | Not listed |
| Nextdoor | Not listed |
| Superpages | Not listed |
| Trustpilot | Not listed |
| Tupalo | Not listed |
| Yellowbook | Not listed |
| Yellow Pages | Not listed |
| Yelp | Not listed |
It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose bubble tea stores run 24 to 48. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Boba scores 38, above the San Jose average of 28. The same method scores every business on the registry.
| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Boba |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor |
| AI visibility | 14 | 20 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 78 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good |
| Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 55 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | 42 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | 34 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor |
Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology
How AI decides what to say about a bubble tea store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boba Bar | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.bobabarsj.com/ | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, California | City | #city | City Boba is in | |
| Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page |
| Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page |
Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the bubble tea stores in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.
This is exactly what this page sends to Google, Bing, ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Gemini. We publish it in the open for two reasons: so you can see nothing here is hidden or made up, and so any business or developer can copy it. Being a good local AI steward means the machine version says exactly what the human version says.
Sent before the page. They tell crawlers the canonical address and that a plain markdown copy exists.
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# Boba Bar, San Jose CA: Reviews Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/boba-bar-san-jose-ca. Free to reuse with a link back. By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated 2026-09-14. Canonical: https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/boba-bar-san-jose-ca ## Photos -  -  -  -  -  ## In short Boba Bar is a bubble tea store in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 38 of 100, which is poor. What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks ## Key facts | Fact | Value | | --- | --- | | Type | Bubble tea store | | Address | 310 S Third St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA | | Hours | Mon to Sun 11 AM to 10 PM | | Phone | (408) 298-9968 | | Rating | 4.3 across 697 reviews on Google | | Quietest time | Wednesday | | Updated | September 14, 2026 | ## All the details Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from. | Group | Fact | Value | Mark | Evidence | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Location info | Address | 310 S Third St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Description | Cozy cafe serving bubble tea in diverse flavors, plus rice & noodle bowls in a minimalist interior. | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Name | Boba Bar | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Location info | Phone | (408) 298-9968 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Monday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Tuesday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Wednesday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Thursday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Friday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Saturday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Hours | Sunday | 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | | Services | Service | Bubble tea | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Flavored bubble tea | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Noodle bowls | AI guess | | | Services | Service | Rice bowls | AI guess | | | Links | Instagram | https://instagram.com/bobabarsj | AI guess | Our record | | Links | Website | https://www.bobabarsj.com/ | Confirmed | Google Business Profile | ## Services and prices Add your services so AI can say what you offer ### Known for Share your review link so AI can say what you're known for ## The team Add your team so AI can name who works here ## Visiting Boba Address: 310 S Third St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA. Phone: (408) 298-9968. Hours: Mon to Sun 11 AM to 10 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.) ### Location info from Google Business Profile From Google Business Profile: "Cozy cafe serving bubble tea in diverse flavors, plus rice & noodle bowls in a minimalist interior." ### When to go Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Sunday. From the popular times on its Google listing. ### Parking and getting in Add your parking so AI can tell people where to park Add how to find your door so AI can walk people in ### Nearby | Place | Type | Distance | | --- | --- | --- | | Samuthr Thai Restaurant | Thai restaurant | 1 min walk | | Phin & Bowl | Asian restaurant | 1 min walk | | La Victoria Taqueria | Mexican restaurant | 1 min walk | | Entre Comales | Fast food restaurant | 1 min walk | | Jack in the Box | Fast food restaurant | 1 min walk | | Pizza My Heart | Pizza restaurant | 1 min walk | ## Reputation 4.3 average across 697 reviews: Google 697. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.) While Boba Bar has standout drinks like the taro smoothie, inconsistent quality and service issues detract from the overall experience. (AI guess, from 697 reviews.) ### What people like - Taro smoothie - Mango macha smoothie - Crème Brûlée Latte - Popcorn chicken ### What people do not like - Long waits due to busy hours - Drinks lacking flavor or tasting bad - Inconsistent quality of food and drinks - Poor customer service experiences ### Press Add a press story so AI can say who's written about you ### Awards Add an award so AI can name it ### Directories Listed on 2 of the 20 directories we checked. | Directory | Listed | | --- | --- | | Angi | Not listed | | Apple Maps | Not listed | | BBB | Not listed | | Birdeye | Not listed | | Chamber of Commerce | Not listed | | Cylex | Not listed | | DexKnows | Not listed | | Facebook | Listed | | Foursquare | Not listed | | Hotfrog | Not listed | | Manta | Not listed | | MapQuest | Listed | | MerchantCircle | Not listed | | Nextdoor | Not listed | | Superpages | Not listed | | Trustpilot | Not listed | | Tupalo | Not listed | | Yellowbook | Not listed | | Yellow Pages | Not listed | | Yelp | Not listed | ## Questions people ask ### Are the hours on Google right for Boba in San Jose? ### anything new from Boba lately? ### do I need to fill anything in beforehand ### torn between Boba and Tisane? ### walk ins, or is it booked solid ### What do shoppers most often mention buying at the shop? ### somewhere cheaper in San Jose that is not a risk? ### where exactly is Boba? ### is there a day here that is not slammed ### Downsides nobody puts in a five star review? ### Why do people rate the shop? ### killing time on Third, any ideas ### discounts for coming back, is that a thing ### best bubble tea store in San Jose ### parking here, where does everyone put the car? ### prices round here, anyone got a number ## The AI Score: 38 of 100 It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose bubble tea stores run 24 to 48. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Boba scores 38, above the San Jose average of 28. The same method scores every business on the registry. | Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Boba | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Retrieval grounding | 26 | 25 | Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on. | Poor | | Off-property attestation | 20 | 41 | Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability. | Poor | | AI visibility | 14 | 20 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor | | Reviews & response | 12 | 78 | The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim. | Good | | Backlink & citation authority | 8 | 55 | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. | Fair | | Google Business Profile | 8 | 90 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good | | Speed & mobile | 7 | 42 | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. | Poor | | Content freshness & schema | 5 | 34 | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. | Poor | Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology How AI decides what to say about a bubble tea store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business ## Entity map Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other. | Entity | Type | ID on this page | Same as | Relationship to Boba | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | Boba Bar | LocalBusiness | #business | https://www.bobabarsj.com/ | Subject of this page | | San Jose, California | City | #city | | City Boba is in | | Local AI Registry | Organization | #publisher | https://localairegistry.com | Publisher of this page | | Steve Lee | Person | #author | https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee | Author of this page | ## Topical map Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the bubble tea stores in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it. ### Lists - Best bubble tea stores in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/bubble-tea-store - Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose ### Nearby - /los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles - /san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco - /san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego - /irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine - /mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view - /santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara ### Every list - Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca ## References ### Sources cited - [1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJCbM49bnMj4ARVDw_01uK6Xw (accessed Sep 14, 2026) - [2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 10, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)
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<p>Local AI Registry · Bubble tea stores in San Jose, CA · Editorial</p>
<h2>Boba Bar, San Jose CA: Reviews</h2>
<p>By Steve Lee, founder and CEO of Local AI Registry. Updated September 14, 2026.</p>
<p>Published September 14, 2026 · Updated September 14, 2026 · Machine-readable version below</p>
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<h3>In short</h3>
<p>Boba Bar is a bubble tea store in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 38 of 100, which is poor.</p>
<p>What each mark on this page means: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#marks</p>
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<h3>Key facts</h3>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Type</td><td>Bubble tea store</td></tr>
<tr><td>Address</td><td>310 S Third St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Sun 11 AM to 10 PM</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phone</td><td>(408) 298-9968</td></tr>
<tr><td>Rating</td><td>4.3 across 697 reviews on Google</td></tr>
<tr><td>Quietest time</td><td>Wednesday</td></tr>
<tr><td>Updated</td><td>September 14, 2026</td></tr>
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<h3>All the details</h3>
<p>Every row is something the owner can add or correct. Each one is marked Confirmed, Visitor submitted or AI guess, with where it came from.</p>
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<thead><tr><th scope="col">Group</th><th scope="col">Fact</th><th scope="col">Value</th><th scope="col">Mark</th><th scope="col">Evidence</th></tr></thead>
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<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Address</td><td>310 S Third St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Description</td><td>Cozy cafe serving bubble tea in diverse flavors, plus rice & noodle bowls in a minimalist interior.</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Hours</td><td>Mon to Sun 11:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Name</td><td>Boba Bar</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Location info</td><td>Phone</td><td>(408) 298-9968</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Monday</td><td>11:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Tuesday</td><td>11:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Wednesday</td><td>11:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Thursday</td><td>11:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Friday</td><td>11:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Saturday</td><td>11:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hours</td><td>Sunday</td><td>11:00 AM to 10:00 PM</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Bubble tea</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Flavored bubble tea</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Noodle bowls</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Services</td><td>Service</td><td>Rice bowls</td><td>AI guess</td><td></td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Instagram</td><td>https://instagram.com/bobabarsj</td><td>AI guess</td><td>Our record</td></tr>
<tr><td>Links</td><td>Website</td><td>https://www.bobabarsj.com/</td><td>Confirmed</td><td>Google Business Profile</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-services-and-prices">
<h3>Services and prices</h3>
<h4>Known for</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-the-team">
<h3>The team</h3>
</section>
<section id="ai-visiting-boba">
<h3>Visiting Boba</h3>
<p>Address: 310 S Third St, San Jose, CA 95112, USA. Phone: (408) 298-9968. Hours: Mon to Sun 11 AM to 10 PM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)</p>
<h4>Location info from Google Business Profile</h4>
<p>From Google Business Profile: "Cozy cafe serving bubble tea in diverse flavors, plus rice & noodle bowls in a minimalist interior."</p>
<h4>When to go</h4>
<p>Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Sunday. From the popular times on its Google listing.</p>
<h4>Parking and getting in</h4>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Place</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">Distance</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Samuthr Thai Restaurant</td><td>Thai restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Phin & Bowl</td><td>Asian restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>La Victoria Taqueria</td><td>Mexican restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Entre Comales</td><td>Fast food restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Jack in the Box</td><td>Fast food restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
<tr><td>Pizza My Heart</td><td>Pizza restaurant</td><td>1 min walk</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-reputation">
<h3>Reputation</h3>
<p>4.3 average across 697 reviews: Google 697. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)</p>
<p>While Boba Bar has standout drinks like the taro smoothie, inconsistent quality and service issues detract from the overall experience. (AI guess, from 697 reviews.)</p>
<h4>What people like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Taro smoothie</li>
<li>Mango macha smoothie</li>
<li>Crème Brûlée Latte</li>
<li>Popcorn chicken</li>
</ul>
<h4>What people do not like</h4>
<ul>
<li>Long waits due to busy hours</li>
<li>Drinks lacking flavor or tasting bad</li>
<li>Inconsistent quality of food and drinks</li>
<li>Poor customer service experiences</li>
</ul>
<h4>Press</h4>
<h4>Awards</h4>
<h4>Directories</h4>
<p>Listed on 2 of the 20 directories we checked.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Directory</th><th scope="col">Listed</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Angi</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Apple Maps</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>BBB</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Birdeye</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Chamber of Commerce</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Cylex</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>DexKnows</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Facebook</td><td>Listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Foursquare</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Hotfrog</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Manta</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>MapQuest</td><td>Listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>MerchantCircle</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Nextdoor</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Superpages</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Trustpilot</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Tupalo</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yellowbook</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yellow Pages</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
<tr><td>Yelp</td><td>Not listed</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-questions-people-ask">
<h3>Questions people ask</h3>
<h4>Are the hours on Google right for Boba in San Jose?</h4>
<h4>anything new from Boba lately?</h4>
<h4>do I need to fill anything in beforehand</h4>
<h4>torn between Boba and Tisane?</h4>
<h4>walk ins, or is it booked solid</h4>
<h4>What do shoppers most often mention buying at the shop?</h4>
<h4>somewhere cheaper in San Jose that is not a risk?</h4>
<h4>where exactly is Boba?</h4>
<h4>is there a day here that is not slammed</h4>
<h4>Downsides nobody puts in a five star review?</h4>
<h4>Why do people rate the shop?</h4>
<h4>killing time on Third, any ideas</h4>
<h4>discounts for coming back, is that a thing</h4>
<h4>best bubble tea store in San Jose</h4>
<h4>parking here, where does everyone put the car?</h4>
<h4>prices round here, anyone got a number</h4>
</section>
<section id="ai-score">
<h3>The AI Score: 38 of 100</h3>
<p>It measures how likely AI engines are to recommend a business, and how accurately. San Jose bubble tea stores run 24 to 48. Fair starts at 45, good at 65. Boba scores 38, above the San Jose average of 28. The same method scores every business on the registry.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Signal</th><th scope="col">Weight</th><th scope="col">Score</th><th scope="col">What it measures</th><th scope="col">Boba</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Retrieval grounding</td><td>26</td><td>25</td><td>Whether you appear in the ranked results AI retrieves and cites: AI-Overview citations, organic top-10 for your money queries, and the Bing index ChatGPT leans on.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Off-property attestation</td><td>20</td><td>41</td><td>Volume and consistency of what others say about you: YouTube mentions, branded web mentions, third-party “best-of” lists. The cause of retrievability.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>AI visibility</td><td>14</td><td>20</td><td>Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Reviews & response</td><td>12</td><td>78</td><td>The star average is only one input. We also read volume, velocity, the specificity of review language, and response cadence. Specific reviews are what AI quotes verbatim.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Backlink & citation authority</td><td>8</td><td>55</td><td>Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you.</td><td>Fair</td></tr>
<tr><td>Google Business Profile</td><td>8</td><td>90</td><td>Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first.</td><td>Good</td></tr>
<tr><td>Speed & mobile</td><td>7</td><td>42</td><td>Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
<tr><td>Content freshness & schema</td><td>5</td><td>34</td><td>Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals.</td><td>Poor</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Full method: https://localairegistry.com/methodology</p>
<p>How AI decides what to say about a bubble tea store: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-ai-decides-local-business. What to check before you choose one: https://localairegistry.com/methodology#how-to-choose-local-business</p>
</section>
<section id="ai-entity-map">
<h3>Entity map</h3>
<p>Every person, place, organization and treatment named on this page, with a stable ID and a public reference. The JSON-LD below connects them to each other.</p>
<table>
<thead><tr><th scope="col">Entity</th><th scope="col">Type</th><th scope="col">ID on this page</th><th scope="col">Same as</th><th scope="col">Relationship to Boba</th></tr></thead>
<tbody>
<tr><td>Boba Bar</td><td>LocalBusiness</td><td>#business</td><td>https://www.bobabarsj.com/</td><td>Subject of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>San Jose, California</td><td>City</td><td>#city</td><td></td><td>City Boba is in</td></tr>
<tr><td>Local AI Registry</td><td>Organization</td><td>#publisher</td><td>https://localairegistry.com</td><td>Publisher of this page</td></tr>
<tr><td>Steve Lee</td><td>Person</td><td>#author</td><td>https://localairegistry.com/team/steve-lee</td><td>Author of this page</td></tr>
</tbody>
</table>
</section>
<section id="ai-topical-map">
<h3>Topical map</h3>
<p>Where this page sits in the registry. It's one profile among the bubble tea stores in San Jose, linked to the lists and towns around it.</p>
<h4>Lists</h4>
<ul>
<li>Best bubble tea stores in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose/bubble-tea-store</li>
<li>Best businesses in San Jose: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-jose</li>
</ul>
<h4>Nearby</h4>
<ul>
<li>/los-angeles: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/los-angeles</li>
<li>/san-francisco: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-francisco</li>
<li>/san-diego: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/san-diego</li>
<li>/irvine: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/irvine</li>
<li>/mountain-view: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/mountain-view</li>
<li>/santa-clara: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca/santa-clara</li>
</ul>
<h4>Every list</h4>
<ul>
<li>Every leaderboard in California: https://localairegistry.com/leaderboards/ca</li>
</ul>
</section>
<section id="ai-references">
<h3>References</h3>
<h4>Sources cited</h4>
<ul>
<li>[1] Google Business Profile, https://www.google.com/maps/place/?q=place_id:ChIJCbM49bnMj4ARVDw_01uK6Xw (accessed Sep 14, 2026)</li>
<li>[2] AI engine output: ChatGPT and Gemini, read by Local AI Registry on Oct 10, 2026, https://localairegistry.com/methodology (accessed Sep 20, 2026)</li>
</ul>
</section>
</article>
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