Random musings

[lukethedrifter]

I refuse to go along with Starbucks' pretentious names for sizes. I always say "medium" and find it both annoying and amusing when the barista feels compelled to confirm my order with their stupid name for that size - grande, I think.

Same

[MrCrowesGarden]

[Freed Roger]

HJ once had a thread here where some of us/me shared name of first pet and street grown up on.....what is he doing with our passwords?

[ghostrunner]

I refuse to go along with Starbucks' pretentious names for sizes. I always say "medium" and find it both annoying and amusing when the barista feels compelled to confirm my order with their stupid name for that size - grande, I think.

Having worked there a decade ago or so, it's just a work efficiency thing. The menu/point of sale system says venti, your coworkers say venti, the company wants you to say venti. The confirmation is as much for them as it is for the customer.

[haltz]

I refuse to go along with Starbucks' pretentious names for sizes. I always say "medium" and find it both annoying and amusing when the barista feels compelled to confirm my order with their stupid name for that size - grande, I think.

Having worked there a decade ago or so, it's just a work efficiency thing. The menu/point of sale system says venti, your coworkers say venti, the company wants you to say venti. The confirmation is as much for them as it is for the customer.

Yeah, I find myself doing that a lot. Sometimes it's semantics and sometimes the customer means something totally different and it's not always easy to do it diplomatically.

That said, it should be pretty easy at Starbucks and if I went there I'd do the same thing.

[Radbird]

And shouldn't a small coffee be called a Short? What marketing bozo looked at that cup and decided Tall was an appropriate description?

[haltz]

I just looked it up and originally it was just short (8 oz) and tall (12 oz). Then they added grande (16 oz) and then venti (20oz - Italian for "twenty"), and phased out the small size.

[AWvsCBsteeeerike3]

Phasing out the short was profitable for them. also, if you're going to starbucks, do you really care all tha tmuch if your small coffee is called a tall? It's a $4 coffee.

[lukethedrifter]

Phasing out the short was profitable for them. also, if you're going to starbucks, do you really care all tha tmuch if your small coffee is called a tall? It's a $4 coffee.

More like $2.20

[wart57]

I just witnessed one Lady at work trying to explain to another lady who Mr. Hankey was...