Thanks again for the input everyone! The main reason I was asking was because I had midterms the week before and didn’t have much time to set meetings up. I wanted to gauge the response I would get and the responses I received exactly replicated the feedback here.
I called/emailed ahead to a few places and offered to buy lunch and most agreed. Got some great information and even made a few connections. One guy liked my work but wasn’t sure if they could use me so he sent me over to another place telling me to name drop him to get through the door, but I got turned away even with that (though some emailing later on cleared it up).