# Sweet Gelato, San Jose CA: Reviews

Source: Local AI Registry, https://localairegistry.com/biz/ca/san-jose/sweet-gelato-tea-lounge-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/sweet-gelato-tea-lounge-san-jose-ca

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## In short

Sweet Gelato is a bubble tea store in San Jose, CA. Its AI Score is 34 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 | 979 Story Rd Unit 7084, San Jose, CA 95122, USA |
| Hours | Mon to Sun 5 PM to 2 AM |
| Phone | (408) 275-9999 |
| Rating | 4.2 across 582 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 | 979 Story Rd Unit 7084, San Jose, CA 95122, USA | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Description | 979 Story Rd Unit 7084, San Jose, CA 95122 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Hours | Mon to Sun 5:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Name | Sweet Gelato \| Tea Lounge | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Location info | Phone | (408) 275-9999 | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Monday | 5:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Tuesday | 5:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Wednesday | 5:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Thursday | 5:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Friday | 5:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Saturday | 5:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Hours | Sunday | 5:00 PM to 2:00 AM | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |
| Team | San Jose, CA |  | Confirmed | Google Business Profile |


## Services and prices

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### Known for

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## The team

1 person is named on this page.


### San Jose, CA

| Field | Value | Mark | Evidence |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |


## Visiting Sweet Gelato

Address: 979 Story Rd Unit 7084, San Jose, CA 95122, USA. Phone: (408) 275-9999. Hours: Mon to Sun 5 PM to 2 AM. (Confirmed, Google Business Profile.)


### When to go

Quietest day: Wednesday. Busiest day: Saturday. From the popular times on its Google listing.


### Parking and getting in

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### Nearby

| Place | Type | Distance |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Saltea | Coffee shop | 1 min walk |
| Em Coffee House - San Jose | Coffee shop | 1 min walk |
| Lang Nuong Restaurant San Jose | Asian restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Pho This Way | Vietnamese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| Tan Dinh Cafe | Vietnamese restaurant | 1 min walk |
| TP Bánh Bao 5 | Takeout restaurant | 1 min walk |


## Reputation

4.2 average across 582 reviews: Google 582. (Confirmed, read September 14, 2026.)

 (AI guess, from 582 reviews.)


### What people like

- Hit and Run hojicha latte with sweet boba pearls
- Variety of mochi flavors including caramel pudding and chocolate banana


### What people do not like

- Lack of price transparency during ordering
- High prices for mediocre drinks and desserts
- Pressure to order without viewing the menu


### Press

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### Awards

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### Directories

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## Questions people ask


### is there a rewards thing at Sweet Gelato


### best bubble tea store in San Jose


### opening hours at Sweet Gelato in San Jose, what are they these days?


### anyone actually happy with the shop?


### Sweet Gelato, any chance to get in this week?


### which one, Sweet Gelato or Tisane?


### anywhere cheaper than the shop in San Jose that is still good?


### Busiest day at Sweet Gelato, anyone know?


### are prices in San Jose higher than everywhere else


### bad experiences here, anyone?


### first visit here, what do I need to bring?


### address for the shop, anyone have it?


### Coffee near Sweet Gelato on Story?


### anything new from Sweet Gelato lately?


### What do shoppers most often mention buying at the shop?


## The AI Score: 34 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. Sweet Gelato scores 34, above the San Jose average of 29. The same method scores every business on the registry.

| Signal | Weight | Score | What it measures | Sweet Gelato |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Retrieval grounding | 26 | Does not apply | 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. |  |
| Off-property attestation | 20 | 42 | 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 | 0 | Whether ChatGPT, Gemini, Perplexity, and AI Overviews name you, and whether they name you for the right service. | Poor |
| Reviews & response | 12 | 77 | 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 | Does not apply | Domain authority and editorial quality of the sources that attest to you. |  |
| Google Business Profile | 8 | 78 | Required and recommended fields; update cadence. The listing AI pulls from first. | Good |
| Speed & mobile | 7 | Does not apply | Core Web Vitals at the 75th percentile, on a real phone. |  |
| Content freshness & schema | 5 | Does not apply | Crawl recency, intent alignment, valid JSON-LD, canonicals. |  |

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 Sweet Gelato |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Sweet Gelato | LocalBusiness | #business |  | Subject of this page |
| San Jose, CA | Person | #team-san-jose |  |  |
| San Jose, California | City | #city |  | City Sweet Gelato 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:ChIJnf4XbNXMj4ARCKs5taGSwYk (accessed Sep 14, 2026)