After years of teasing San Antonio with social media hints , Austin’s JuiceLand will soon make its San Antonio debut. The wildly popular juice and smoothie chain is squeezing into Alamo Heights at 5300 Broadway.

According to company lore, entrepreneur Matt Shook got the idea for JuiceLand after visiting a shop called the Juice Joint near Austin’s Barton Springs Pool. He applied for a part-time job at the shop and soon learned the business from the inside out.

He took over the business, which became JuiceLand 10 years later in 2011. Now the chain has 52 locations in the Austin, Dallas, and Houston areas — many of them near or inside H-E-B stores.

The concept is most known for, well, juice, pressed on site or cold-pressed into bottles. Its menu extends to fruity staples like smoothi

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