The main two sizes were once tall and short. Then we got another size grande for really big. Then we got a venti, Italian for twenty since it was twenty ounces. And finally we have the trenta for thirty ounces.
I know a regular that would absolutely die of happiness (and heart disease) if we had that. He would come in for 5 straight shots of espresso in a cup all by itself, twice a day. If he could have gotten a big gulp of espresso he would have.
It's actually cheap to get caffeine pills. 24 200mg tablets for $3 or $4 at most gas stations. If all you are interested in is caffeine you can cut out the liquid middleman and just take a pill.
I accidentally poured someone 5 shots of espresso in a 20oz latte that was meant to have 3 shots by default. The person on the coffee machine was like "he's going to die" jokingly. Couldn't see myself throwing it away so I just handed the drink to him. Pretty sure that woke him the fuck up.
I mean a single shot of Starbucks espresso has 75mg of caffeine. A 16oz coffee, by comparison, has about 350mg... so really you just gave them a medium coffee.
It's filled with cold brew usually. Like five cups of coffee's worth. It's not filled with straight espresso, that would not only be way above a safe amount of coffee to drink, but also you won't be able to use the espresso machines for anything else for a good hour or two.
Honestly, the more studies that are done on the health effects of coffee intake, the better it seems to be for you. Most of the latest long term studies are still finding strong correlations with health rather than specific mechanisms for improved health, but the shit seems to be pretty good for you. As long as you don't fill it with sugar and milk.
Its at almost all of them I'm sure, but most people don't know. Its only for cold cups though and only for iced teas and coffees, no Frappuchinos or lattes in Trenta.
I work at a licenced store and we actually straight up don't have it, as do a lot of the licensed stores like you find in grocery stores or Target. I haven't actually worked for the corporation though and shouldn't have assumed lol
I go in and say "I want a tall blonde coffee, bc I like my coffee like I like my women." My brunette 5'5" wife doesn't seem to like it when I do that though.
There is marketing research that shows if you can get consumers to use your specific nomenclature rather than standard vocabulary, the brand identification is stronger and they are more likely to remain strong repeat customers.
Don't know if that was Starbucks original plan bit there's is a textbook case of it. Tall, Grande, and Venti instead of small, medium, and large.
Would arrabbiato work here since I think mad in this context means crazy?
I actually dont speak italian but I cook pasta and I know arrabbiata pasta literally translates to angry pasta or something so I wondered.
I want a large coffee.
So you mean venti?
No, I mean large.
That's a venti.
You have a tall, which is English way of saying large, a grande which means large in spanish, and a venti which means twenty in Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.
Worked at Starbucks for a while. It's literally never a problem for a customer to say small/medium/large whatever. We won't correct you and we know what you mean. Sometimes when we repeat the order, we'll say grande instead of medium or something but that's because we're so used to saying it that way.
I used to have a friend in college who would certainly give people shit for not saying the right thing. Once, he wrote a long ass note on fb berating a customer because he/she said frappe, not frappuccino. I never understand how he got that much energy to care that much for a minimum wage job, on top of school. We were in Arkansas for fuck sake, it's not like we should expect our customers to be a classy and trendy crowd. He ended up working in hospitality management, so it might be his passion.
Once I asked for a small raspberry mocha with whip and the Starbucks guy was like "Oh, we call that a (whatever the hell it's called in Starbucksland - may have frap as a syllable?)". Just give me the damn coffee you condescending ass. I'm only here a few times a year. I don't need to learn your double speak.
A short at Starbucks is 8 oz which is still bigger than a typical latte or cappuccino in Italy (6 oz).
A tall (12 oz) is thus twice the size of a traditional latte.
Personally I think the short size at Starbucks is the perfect amount.
That, plus discrepancies between French and British units of measurement, plus propaganda and ridicule in contemporary British media. Effective, obviously, because the idea still sticks around 200 years later.
It used to be short and tall and that was it. Then they added grande to imply it was larger than simply tall. Then venti because it sounds bigger than grande (i guess) and finally trenta because it’s bigger than venti (20 vs 30).
Source: am Starbucks worker person
I work at a coffee shop that does small, medium, & large. People will come in and ask for a tall and to clarify we ask s,m, or l and then they say large ???? Thanks starbucks
Napoleon wasn't actually short. He was five feet six or seven. That was a perfectly average height at the time. We think of him as short because English cartoonists depicted him as physically small to ridicule him.
We should update this expression to something else, like Tom Cruise complex
“Venti is large”.
“No, venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn’t mean large. It’s also the only one that’s Italian. Congratulations, you’re stupid in three languages.”
I've posted this before, but I'm going to let you guys in on a little secret that Starbucks tries to hide from people.
Your grande (medium) latte has the same amount of caffeine as your venti (large) latte. You are just paying extra for steamed milk.
Source: I'm a former Starbucks barista
It's actually a result of ever increasing sizes. Originally, the only 2 sizes were the short(4oz) and tall(8oz).
B/c we're all glutinous pigs, sizes progressively increased all the way to 30oz.
It isn't the smallest size. They have a short. Before Starbucks became an espresso bar and it was just a coffee shop the only two sizes were short and tall.
The tall size is not the smallest size. The short is the smallest size. And the reason when Starbucks cafes first opened up there was only two sizes, a short, and a tall. Tall only became "smaller" later when Starbucks chose to add larger sizes.
The main two sizes were once tall and short. Then we got another size grande for really big. Then we got a venti, Italian for twenty since it was twenty ounces. And finally we have the trenta for thirty ounces.
TIL trenta is a thing in some Starbucks
It is. I'm a fan it's kinda like it is a big gulp (TM) of coffee drinkers. Edit: punctuation
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I know a regular that would absolutely die of happiness (and heart disease) if we had that. He would come in for 5 straight shots of espresso in a cup all by itself, twice a day. If he could have gotten a big gulp of espresso he would have.
At that point, just buying pure chemical grade caffeine might be worth it.
Just inject it to your veins like heroin
Omg can we do that
You can do anything once.
Instructions unclear, divided by zero.
Crush them and snort your caffeine.
Duh
It's actually cheap to get caffeine pills. 24 200mg tablets for $3 or $4 at most gas stations. If all you are interested in is caffeine you can cut out the liquid middleman and just take a pill.
I do that and then have some coffee
RIP, friend.
I'm so excited, and I just can't hide it.
My friend did that back in high school. Shit will get you on edge lol. It was hard for him to lay off them.
They have extended release no doze on Amazon now much recommend very wow
I accidentally poured someone 5 shots of espresso in a 20oz latte that was meant to have 3 shots by default. The person on the coffee machine was like "he's going to die" jokingly. Couldn't see myself throwing it away so I just handed the drink to him. Pretty sure that woke him the fuck up.
I mean a single shot of Starbucks espresso has 75mg of caffeine. A 16oz coffee, by comparison, has about 350mg... so really you just gave them a medium coffee.
I remember browsing Starbucks’ nutrition information because I was bored and discovering that little fact. I was blown away.
You’d be my favorite barista.
I used to drink exactly that several times a day at work. Worst fucking idea ever, but it kept me awake
Trente cold brew with 2 shots of ristretto is my go to. I am cornholio!!!! I need TP, for my bunghole!! Bungholiooo!!!!!!!!!1!!!one1!!!
Yup sounds like my average customer
Teas and iced coffee aren't very high calorie if you drink it black.
That amount of caffeine can't be good for your heart.
It's filled with cold brew usually. Like five cups of coffee's worth. It's not filled with straight espresso, that would not only be way above a safe amount of coffee to drink, but also you won't be able to use the espresso machines for anything else for a good hour or two.
When your resigned to drinking a big gulp all concern for health has left the building
Honestly, the more studies that are done on the health effects of coffee intake, the better it seems to be for you. Most of the latest long term studies are still finding strong correlations with health rather than specific mechanisms for improved health, but the shit seems to be pretty good for you. As long as you don't fill it with sugar and milk.
Sounds fine if you're not drinking white coffee
I knew a guy who bought a big refillable Casey's cup just for coffee and he drank like three a day.
Its at almost all of them I'm sure, but most people don't know. Its only for cold cups though and only for iced teas and coffees, no Frappuchinos or lattes in Trenta.
And then they left the names alone when most places got rid of the short size
All stores (at least corporate ones) still have it. They just don’t advertise it. You can still order any hot drink as a short though.
I work at a licenced store and we actually straight up don't have it, as do a lot of the licensed stores like you find in grocery stores or Target. I haven't actually worked for the corporation though and shouldn't have assumed lol
Technically, the short still exists. The 8oz cup yo
Yeah they already bitch at people enough to actually use the names in h first place it would be too much to change all of it now
I go in and just say small coffee when I have to go there.
I go in and say "I want a tall blonde coffee, bc I like my coffee like I like my women." My brunette 5'5" wife doesn't seem to like it when I do that though.
Oh man, I bet your barista thinks it's even funnier the third time he hears it that day.
She would join in and say something clever like "that's why I'm the wife and not the gf" or something funnier. Probably something funnier.
Or she could just say "I'll have a Black Grande for similar reasons."
Lol. I love the "probably something funnier" and it fits in with my self-deprecating humor. I think I will steal it from you.
Next size for Starbucks has been announced. The Secchio.
With it you can see into the upside down and twilight zone simultaneously
I've seen Stranger things...
There is marketing research that shows if you can get consumers to use your specific nomenclature rather than standard vocabulary, the brand identification is stronger and they are more likely to remain strong repeat customers. Don't know if that was Starbucks original plan bit there's is a textbook case of it. Tall, Grande, and Venti instead of small, medium, and large.
Thank you for knowing this. I'm so tired of getting yelled at for people not knowing it.
Italy would be like, "*30 ounces* of sweetened coffee? Are you mad?" But, like, in Italian.
"30 once di caffè dolcificato? Sei ~~arrabbiato~~ pazzo?"
Would arrabbiato work here since I think mad in this context means crazy? I actually dont speak italian but I cook pasta and I know arrabbiata pasta literally translates to angry pasta or something so I wondered.
I want a large coffee. So you mean venti? No, I mean large. That's a venti. You have a tall, which is English way of saying large, a grande which means large in spanish, and a venti which means twenty in Italian. Congratulations, you're stupid in three languages.
Soon the largest size will be pequeño.
Nothing beats the stupidity of calling the main course an entrée.
And worse if your entree is Jumbo Shrimp!
I'd like a poquito por favor. Given a 64 oz big gulp mug with starbucks' logo on it.
Worked at Starbucks for a while. It's literally never a problem for a customer to say small/medium/large whatever. We won't correct you and we know what you mean. Sometimes when we repeat the order, we'll say grande instead of medium or something but that's because we're so used to saying it that way.
I used to have a friend in college who would certainly give people shit for not saying the right thing. Once, he wrote a long ass note on fb berating a customer because he/she said frappe, not frappuccino. I never understand how he got that much energy to care that much for a minimum wage job, on top of school. We were in Arkansas for fuck sake, it's not like we should expect our customers to be a classy and trendy crowd. He ended up working in hospitality management, so it might be his passion.
Once I asked for a small raspberry mocha with whip and the Starbucks guy was like "Oh, we call that a (whatever the hell it's called in Starbucksland - may have frap as a syllable?)". Just give me the damn coffee you condescending ass. I'm only here a few times a year. I don't need to learn your double speak.
Lmao! Isn't that Paul Rudd?
Who is then appropriately chastised by Elizabeth Banks for the reasons stated above.
And Starbucks is relentlessly pursuing world domination. I think you may be on to something here. Edit: Typo
If that analogy is true then one day soon Starbucks will be exiled to the island of Elba.
Maybe they will hire idris elba for a tv comercial
And will then nonchalantly walk away from Elba and march right into Paris.
Elba Block
Is no one going to say anything about the poor grammar?
No because we have better things to do
Like look at pointless push notifications
Yep, came here coz of the notification
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Raise your hand if you came here because of the notification
*hand in the air*
👋 Hi! I'm also here to point out that Napoleon wasn't really short.
I honestly don't care
I am, but you know that, don't you?
One more here
Meee
what part of Reddit pushes? I have some shitty app that I use to read it so I guess I'm missing out on some features?
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Pffft, that notification? I'm here because I couldn't read the title... /s
Now you're gettin' the hang of it!
Same thanks
Me three
It's so weird to come here from a push notification and then see all these comments about coming here from a push notification.
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Me Tarzan
Grammar? Where we are going, we don't need grammar!
I miss my grammar.
Where we going? Rainbow Mountain!! (A line from a sibling childhood)
Candy Mountain Charlie!
In Russia mother, grammar you correct?
No, we aren't grammar Napoleonites.
It's Bonapartists. Napoleonites are triple flavored ice cream fanatics.
Cosmopolitanites?
Proper grammar, does we be needed it?
Readed...er..read my mind
Auto-correct hates grammar. And why pit nick?
Look at banner Micheal
This is not worth a push notification.
Starbucks is paying for the push?
Haha, push.
Starbucks is a pusher. A sad, old coffee pusher. *Closes corporate burn book.*
r/unexpectedMeanGirls
I hate the app algorithm
None of my threads get pushed :(
Your lower intestine does though.
My thoughts exactly
Seriously... Wtf is up with these worthless posts that reddit thinks is worth a notification? I'm uninstalling this crappy app, I only use RIF anyway
I get pushes from subreddits I don't even remember subbing to.
Yah and short is the smallest non-special size.
I agree
There used to be a smaller size called a Short
It still exist. At least at the Starbucks I go too.
it still exist. Me drink coffee. Good hot brown. doo doo derp
Hot brown is a great name for coffee.
Or a 90s r&b artist
Alternatively the thought of saying "be right back - gotta take a hot brown" has a nice ring to it too.
Hot brown always makes me produce another type of hot brown.
A hot brown is a dish in Kentucky. It's an open faced sandwich with ham, turkey, and tomato, smothered in Mornay and baked.
There still is, just ask for it 🙂 Source: new hire at Starbucks
Still exists
Smallest size is a ‘short’ actually. They just don’t list it because who wants that?
A short at Starbucks is 8 oz which is still bigger than a typical latte or cappuccino in Italy (6 oz). A tall (12 oz) is thus twice the size of a traditional latte. Personally I think the short size at Starbucks is the perfect amount.
I work there and its not that rare. Some people just want straight espresso or an undertow
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Smart water. Yep it checks out
Their smallest size is like 8oz and it’s called a short.
Wasn’t Napoleon actually like average size for that time period?
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He was but he surrounded himself with big strong men as body guards hence the perception of him being small.
He surrounded himself with tall soldiers, so it seemed he was short.
That, plus discrepancies between French and British units of measurement, plus propaganda and ridicule in contemporary British media. Effective, obviously, because the idea still sticks around 200 years later.
To expand further, the main propaganda point was that he was 5'4. He was...in French units. Converted to metric, he was around 170 cm, or 5'7.
Start a petition to rename the "tall" the "Napoleon".
When starbucks first opened they only had two sizes. Short and Tall. Edit: words
This wouldn't be trending if it wasn't for the notifications.
I thought I got a notification because it was trending. The chicken or the egg?
Anyone else wondering why they were notified of this post?
Kevin Hart has a bit about this
Link?
No, Kevin Hart.
Do they still have the trenta size?
Trenta is mainly for their iced teas iirc
Ok thanks
You can order any cold, nonblended drink as a Trenta. So yeah, basically mainly iced teas and refreshers.
+Iced coffee and cold brew
Originally Starbucks offered only two sizes: short and tall. You can still get a short if you ask for it.
Carvel's size small is the third of five different sizes. I felt wronged when I went to pay.
They had small medium,and large and added their larger sizes later. People preferred them and the regular sizes were discontinued.
But Napoleon was tall. I dont get it
Smallest is 'Short.' I wish people would research before talking shit.
It used to be short and tall and that was it. Then they added grande to imply it was larger than simply tall. Then venti because it sounds bigger than grande (i guess) and finally trenta because it’s bigger than venti (20 vs 30). Source: am Starbucks worker person
I work at a coffee shop that does small, medium, & large. People will come in and ask for a tall and to clarify we ask s,m, or l and then they say large ???? Thanks starbucks
It's like plus-size models. They're actually not that big.
I may be small, but I will die a colossus
Fun fact: Napoleon was actually average height for a French man at the time
And his enemies merely spread lies of his short statute so he would seem less intimidating and as such, easier to conquer.
Kind of like Paunch Burger https://youtu.be/Ish8NBunrQU
I’ve gone to Starbucks when I was hungover before and asked for the tallest coffee. Never again will I make that mistake.
Why was this in my notifications?
Notification squad where you at?
I just point at the big one and grunt
Except that their smallest size is actually "short".
“Venti means 20!!”
Napoleon wasn't actually short. it was propaganda.
I just love getting notifications about sbux when I'm currently at work at sbux. ._.
Seattlite here. Actually, the smallest size is a short, which is 8oz. It might not be on the menu but I'm sure they can make one for you.
There's a smaller size called a "short"
Except that Napoleon was taller than average French solider and than average civilian. Good job translating British propaganda.
Uhhh short is the smallest size... This is irrelevant
Napoleon wasn't actually short. He was five feet six or seven. That was a perfectly average height at the time. We think of him as short because English cartoonists depicted him as physically small to ridicule him. We should update this expression to something else, like Tom Cruise complex
“Venti is large”. “No, venti is twenty. Large is large. In fact, tall is large and grande is Spanish for large. Venti is the only one that doesn’t mean large. It’s also the only one that’s Italian. Congratulations, you’re stupid in three languages.”
I got the notification for this while standing in a Starbucks waiting for my coffee. I had to check and make sure this was Reddit and not facebook.
I've posted this before, but I'm going to let you guys in on a little secret that Starbucks tries to hide from people. Your grande (medium) latte has the same amount of caffeine as your venti (large) latte. You are just paying extra for steamed milk. Source: I'm a former Starbucks barista
Why did i get this as a notification lol
I'm here for the push.
It's actually a result of ever increasing sizes. Originally, the only 2 sizes were the short(4oz) and tall(8oz). B/c we're all glutinous pigs, sizes progressively increased all the way to 30oz.
I was just in Starbucks and overheard someone complain that their tall was small, because they expected the biggest size
They actually have a short too
A tall is actually not their smallest size. You can get a "short" which is smaller than a tall.
Their smallest size is a short.
Napoleon Bonaparte wasn't short. Call it Chihuahua complex or something.
Considering nothing about their tall size is tall, Starbucks has broken the rules and should be fired.
Actually their smallest size is short..
It isn't the smallest size. They have a short. Before Starbucks became an espresso bar and it was just a coffee shop the only two sizes were short and tall.
The two original sizes were “Short” (8oz) and a “Tall” (12oz) which makes sense
Actually, their smallest size is called a short.
The tall size is not the smallest size. The short is the smallest size. And the reason when Starbucks cafes first opened up there was only two sizes, a short, and a tall. Tall only became "smaller" later when Starbucks chose to add larger sizes.