Why does Starbucks Coffee name their sizes Grande and Venti ?!
Why does Starbucks Coffee name their sizes Grande and Venti ?
What do they mean ?
Answers:
Venti means 20 -- as in 20 oz
and Grande means grand or large
edit: and they're Italian words
they probably name it..to probably make it sound fancy..i think its french
Couldn't find any definition on Venti, but Grande means large.
so they can charge 6 bucks for a large (grande) coffee.
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Italian for the size of coffee
it is probaly a diff. language like french or something 2 make it sound fancy and for them 2 b different fomr everyone else
To make it seem fancy and foreign =)
personally i think its a marketing thing... "tall" sounds like ur getting more than "small", and "grande" sounds like it has more than "medium", same for vente. since the prices for the coffee r so high starbucks doesnt rele want how much coffee u rele get to b obvious... also i think the italian names appeals to the often trendy and arguable pretentious clientele that starbucks markets to
It's just lifted from Italian
Tall cup = small size = 12 oz
Grande cup (meaning big cup) = medium size = 16 oz
Venti cup (means 20 cup) = large size = 20 oz
Venti ice cup = 24 oz
and it was actively chosen to make Starbucks stand out from other coffee places. It's more fun and attractive to customers, certain ones at least. If you don't like it, it's no big deal, we're (I work at Starbucks) still human behind the green apron, so feel free to say small, large, or medium.
I want to say that it's not exactly starbucks unique to use italian terms. The word Latte itself is Italian for milk, so a Cafe Latte is Italian for a coffee flavored milk drink, mocha latte is mocha flavored milk.
It was since they were founded and gives a European feel.