Many questions pop to mind when you order coffee. Does the barista write your name exactly on the coffee? What size do you need? What do Venti, Trenta, and other measures translate to in Starbucks?
What do the words grande, Venti, and Trenta refer to at Starbucks?
In the beginning, here are the standard sizes offered by Starbucks: tall (12 ounces), grande (16 ounces), Venti (24 ounces) as well as trenta (31 pounds).
Let’s discuss the tall. Many consider this choice by the coffee business as a classic example of corporate language manipulation. Tall rhymes with tiny, but it is similar to. This could lead the consumer to be less concerned about the amount of their drink and the cost.
Incredibly, the tall wasn’t always the most significant drink size, and those who ordered ever-larger beverages could be the reason for the name.
Starbucks creator Howard Schultz traveled to Italy for the first time in 1983. He became enthralled by “the romance and theater of coffee,” according to the Starbucks website. (The first Starbucks in Italy opened in Milan on the 1st of 2018.)
In his first cafe, Il Giornale, Schultz offered three sizes: short (8 8 ounces), tall, and large. As Venti became popular (to meet the popular demand), Schultz dropped the fast to keep the menus manageable.
What are the literal meanings behind the sizes? Grande is Italian, meaning “large.” Venti means “twenty,” and Trenta is “thirty.” Why isn’t the 16-ounce size known as the sedici (Italian meaning “sixteen”) instead? Maybe because “grande” is associated with an image of the English large. Why not use this same logic and apply names similar to English terms to the other two sizes? The less well-known Venti and Trenta might help customers forget about the cost or calorie amount they will consume.
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