Buy The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf Gift Card with Crypto

The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf opened in Los Angeles in September 1963 — eight years before Starbucks — as an office coffee service run by Herbert Hyman, and grew into a Southern California institution before anyone used the phrase "third wave". Its signature is not an espresso drink at all: in the summer of 1987 an employee took a blender to the Westwood store, mixed ice, coffee extract and chocolate powder, and invented the Ice Blended, which the rest of the industry spent the next decade copying. The Tea Leaf half of the name is real too — the loose-leaf and powdered-tea range is unusually deep for a coffee chain.

Today the chain runs 1,232 stores across 24 countries and has been owned since 2019 by the Philippines-based Jollibee Group, which bought it for $350 million. That international spread is exactly why the card programmes are split by region: a US-issued card is store credit against the American cafés and the US webshop, and it will not redeem at the Singaporean, Malaysian, Korean or Emirati franchises, which run their own separate cards.

Buying it here needs no loyalty account and no identity check. You give us a delivery email, pay in the coin you already hold, and the code arrives in about eleven minutes. It spends on the whole board — Ice Blendeds, espresso, the tea range, pastries and breakfast — and on coffeebean.com, which is the more interesting half if the recipient is a home brewer: whole-bean coffee, loose-leaf tea and brewing kit shipped to the door.

One constraint deserves plain language. The word that matters in the terms is participating. Much of the network beyond California is franchised, and counters operating under licence — the ones in airport terminals, hotel lobbies and university campuses — are not always inside the gift-card programme. For a recipient who lives near a company-run café or who buys beans online this is a non-issue; for someone whose only nearby Coffee Bean sits airside at an airport, check before you buy.