Orange / Central Orange County
Starbucks' locator shows 17 stores with Orange addresses, and the four with drive-thrus are on the big arterials: West Katella Avenue at Main Street (1627), East Chapman Avenue at Tustin Street (1630) and at Swidler (3630), and Tustin Avenue near Lincoln (2734). Walk-in cafes gather around Old Towne and South Main Street, where Philz runs its Old Towne Orange store at 202 N. Glassell and Starbucks has cafes at 130 and 691 S. Main. Dutch Bros lists no Orange location (its nearest Orange County stores are in Garden Grove and Laguna Hills), so Starbucks is the only drive-through coffee operator we could confirm in the city. Drive-through lanes need a conditional use permit in the regular commercial zones and are not allowed at all in the Old Towne mixed use zones, so a drive-through concept and a walk-in cafe will usually end up in different parts of town.
Population
138,266
Median HHI
$117,113
Median age
37.2
Homeownership
56.7%
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, American Community Survey 2020-2024 5-year estimates.
Primary retail corridors
Chapman Avenue · Tustin Street · Glassell Street · Katella Avenue · Main Street · La Veta Avenue
Specific shopping centers in Orange that already carry credible co-tenancy for this use. Listed in approximate order of fit.
Chapman Avenue at Glassell Street
Anchors / key tenants: historic downtown plaza, antique row, chef-driven dining
National Register historic district (listed 1997) with a walkable plaza around the famous Orange Circle. Antique row, chef-driven restaurants, coffee, boutiques, and Chapman University walk-up traffic. Strong visitor and student daypart.
20 City Boulevard West
Anchors / key tenants: AMC Theatres, Nike Factory Store, Saks OFF 5TH, Last Call by Neiman Marcus
Open-air outlet center (former Block at Orange) owned by Simon Property Group. National outlet/value retail plus a dining and entertainment ring serving the 5/22 freeway interchange. Strong regional pull from Anaheim and Garden Grove.
8440 East Chapman Avenue
Anchors / key tenants: neighborhood retail and grocery mix
East Orange neighborhood center serving the foothills and Anaheim Hills crossover. Daily-needs and service-retail oriented.
Existing operators are the most honest comp for whether a use can support Orange rents. These are publicly visible coffee shop space businesses currently trading in the market.
Philz Coffee, Old Towne Orange
202 N. Glassell Street, Orange, CA 92866
Philz's own location data names this store Old Towne Orange, describes it as near Chapman and suited to studying before class, and marks it as having no drive-thru.
Starbucks, Chapman & Main
130 S. Main Street, Suite E, Orange, CA 92868
Company-operated cafe with no drive-thru, per Starbucks' store locator.
Starbucks, Main & Town and Country
691 S. Main Street, Orange, CA 92868
Company-operated cafe with no drive-thru, per Starbucks' store locator.
Starbucks, Katella & Main (drive-thru)
1627 W. Katella Avenue, Orange, CA 92867
Company-operated store that Starbucks' locator lists with a drive-thru and in-cafe seating.
Starbucks, Chapman & Tustin (drive-thru)
1630 E. Chapman, Orange, CA 92866
Company-operated store with a drive-thru, per Starbucks' locator, which writes the street as Chapman Blvd.
Starbucks, Chapman & Swidler (drive-thru)
3630 E. Chapman Avenue, Orange, CA 92869
Company-operated store with a drive-thru, per Starbucks' locator. East Chapman Avenue.
Starbucks, Tustin & Lincoln (drive-thru)
2734 Tustin Avenue, Orange, CA 92865
Company-operated store with a drive-thru, per Starbucks' locator.
Starbucks, The Outlets at Orange
20 City Boulevard West, Orange, CA 92868
Starbucks names this company-operated cafe The Outlets at Orange; the address matches the catalog's address for that center. No drive-thru.
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Use: Table 17.13.030 (as adopted by Ordinance 13-18 in 2018) lists Restaurants without alcoholic beverage sales as P in CP/C1, C-TR, C2, C3 and CR, C in OP and OTMU-15S, and P in OTMU-15, OTMU-24, NMU-24 and UMU. Chapter 17.04 defines a counter service restaurant to include places that mainly serve coffee, bagels, donuts or sandwiches, so a coffee bar is treated as a restaurant for zoning and parking. Chapter 17.13 has been amended many times since (history runs through Ord. 18-25, November 12, 2025), so have Planning confirm the current row for your zone.
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Drive-through: Restaurants with drive thru or take out window are C+ (a Planning Commission conditional use permit under Section 17.10.030(C)) in CP/C1, C-TR, C2, C3, NMU-24 and UMU, P* in CR only as part of an integrated commercial development (Section 17.13.040(VV)), and not permitted in OP or any Old Towne mixed use zone. Section 17.13.050(T) requires lanes at least 12 feet wide that do not block circulation, parking back-up areas or walkways, a queuing study based on similar operations, and Police Department sign-off on the layout. In NMU-24 and UMU it adds a 40 foot gap from lane entrance to the first menu board, 30 feet from any driveway apron, no lane next to a street, a speaker that cannot be heard at the property line, and a six foot masonry wall next to residential.
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Walk-up windows: the table has a separate row for Restaurants with walk-up take out window that allows them only in the mixed use zones (P in OTMU-15, OTMU-24, NMU-24 and UMU, C in OTMU-15S). In CP/C1, C-TR, C2 and C3 a take-out window falls under the C+ drive-thru or take out window row, so a walk-up order window on a strip center suite is a conditional use.
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Parking: Table 17.34.060(B) parks a counter service restaurant at 4 spaces per 1,000 SF when restaurants are less than 30% of the center, 8 per 1,000 above 30%, 10 per 1,000 when stand-alone, 5 per 1,000 for 20 seats or fewer or mainly takeout, and 13 per 1,000 of restaurant floor area (not counting kitchen, storage and restrooms) plus stacking with a drive-through. A patio up to 25% of the indoor area (30% in the mixed use zones) adds no parking. Inside the eight-block Downtown Plaza District bounded by Maple, Grand, Almond and Lemon, Table 17.34.060(C) sets every nonresidential use at 4 per 1,000. Ask the landlord what share of the center is already food, since crossing 30% doubles the rate.
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Patio and Old Towne: Section 17.18.080 requires businesses in the commercial districts to operate inside a building, with outdoor eating facilities in connection with permitted restaurants listed as an exception. In Old Towne, Section 17.18.220 and the mixed use chapter require new work to follow the Historic Preservation Design Standards for Old Towne Orange, which affects storefront, sign and patio changes around the Plaza and on Glassell Street and Chapman Avenue.
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Health and grease: the OC Health Care Agency Plan Check unit must review plans for any new or remodeled food facility (Health and Safety Code 114380) and asks for a menu and equipment specification sheets; the approved plans go to the City's building department and the annual health permit is issued after final inspection. On grease, OC San's FOG Ordinance OCSD-25 exempts limited food preparation (reheating, hot holding or assembling ready-to-eat food) and requires each city and sewer agency that feeds its system to run its own FOG program. Get Orange Public Works' written answer on whether an espresso bar with a pastry case needs a grease interceptor before you design the plumbing.
Zoning, licensing, and demographic figures on this page come from the public records below. Codes and licenses change, so confirm with the city and the licensing agency before you sign.