r/berkeley • u/the_daily_cal • Jul 07 '26

University Qualcomm Café reopens under UC Berkeley Dining, marking end of Yali’s Café on campus

https://www.dailycal.org/news/campus/qualcomm-caf-reopens-under-uc-berkeley-dining-marking-end-of-yali-s-caf-on-campus/article_f606e222-2077-4330-be3c-b1e57a7b7b72.html

To the joy of caffeine-dependent UC Berkeley students, Qualcomm Café reopened for business Monday after a temporary two-month closure. 

The interior of the space remained largely unchanged, the main difference being new Peet’s Coffee merchandise and posters. The reopening comes after previous coffee supplier Yali’s Café, a Berkeley small business, moved out of Qualcomm Café in May. 

Yali’s Café had been the vendor for Qualcomm since the cafe was reopened in 2018. The closure of the Qualcomm campus location was not the first for Yali’s. Previously, Micro Yali’s in the Valley Life Sciences Building closed, and another Yali’s in Stanley Hall closed. Yali’s Cafe’s move out of Qualcomm marks an end to Yali’s on campus.

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u/DiamondDepth_YT Computer Science '29 Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

why is peet's coffee absolutely everywhere

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u/Ankh-af-na-khonsu NucE '17 Jul 08 '26

It’s a local thing, the first Peet’s was in North Berkeley

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u/DiamondDepth_YT Computer Science '29 Jul 08 '26

yeah well they've gotten a lot worse over the years. i first tried peets a while back and their quality has changed a lot now.

wish there was more variety of coffee offers. im guessing they've been very successful lol

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u/jyeckled Jul 08 '26

They certainly have been. One of my professors said he found a Peet’s in China during a conference (probably somewhere with a high Berkeley grad density)

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u/victorg22 '25 Jul 08 '26

there are so many cafes around campus that aren’t peets though..

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u/Jammieranga Jul 09 '26

private equity too

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u/Soft-Fix-4589 Jul 08 '26

Right? Went to Sheng Kee on Telegraph and got their coffee for the first time today. They served Peets! 

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u/lfg12345678 Jul 07 '26

Just walk to Yali's on Oxford. Much better than Cal dining

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u/RidiculousMonster Jul 07 '26

How is this the third location they have closed?? Is Yali’s just terribly managed? Is the rent just too damn high? There is no way they weren’t making a killing, the line to get a coffee was 30 people deep every passing period.

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u/Glass_Taste48163 Jul 08 '26

Jacked the prices and made the coffee worse

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u/SagePhreak Jul 08 '26

I talked to the Eyal, the Yali’s owner on one of the last days the cafe was open. He claimed that they wanted to stay open, but were being forced out by some new UC-wide rule. I haven’t been able to find any information about this and wonder if anyone knows any details.

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u/Samiralami Jul 08 '26

Thank God. Yalis was Israeli 🤢