Standalone Starbucks on Laning Road in Point Loma, San Diego operates a drive-through location inside the Liberty Station district, catching traffic from the Shelter Island marina hotels and the adjacent Point Loma Nazarene University campus 500 feet to the east. Hotel guests from the Courtyard by Marriott and Hampton Inn walk to this store as a morning ritual, creating a tourist-and-student customer mix distinct from the grocery-kiosk Starbucks locations elsewhere in Point Loma San Diego, and from the independent roaster format at Kakawa Coffee on the peninsula. Outdoor seating permits dogs and extends the patio into a staging area for morning walks along the harbor. The full Starbucks espresso, cold-brew, and bakery-case menu serves the Liberty Station restaurants corridor alongside the specialty-cookie lineup at Crumbl nearby. Catering-tray coffee travelers and bulk pastry orders for campus and hotel-conference groups represent the store's highest-volume commissions.