

Though the 16 ounce grande is now the “medium,” Grande means “big,” “great,” or “large” in Italian. And Stuart Little’s cold brew.Ī post shared by ☕️ 12 ounce tall is Starbucks current small. Anyway, this tiny cup is perfect if you want the smallest Frappuccino ever, but usually it’s used for espresso shots. And, last we checked, that’s French for half cup. Or as Elon Musk likes to say, a 15-minute coffee break. Schultz bought all of it for $3.8 million. Two years later, the Starbucks founders were ready to sell their name, the roasting plant, and the six Seattle stores. Schultz was so inspired that he left Starbucks in 1985 to start his own Italian-inspired coffee company called Il Giornale (which means “the newspaper”). Just like your friend who says Barcelona with a lisp, we have Italian-inspired names thanks to Shultz’s European excursion. The Italian names joined the menu after Howard Schultz (then Director of Operations) took a trip to Milan, Italy in 1983 and came back inspired by their coffeehouses.

With Advil.Ī post shared by Starbucks Secret Menu Do the Names Mean? Tall became the new short, grande became medium, and Venti became large. But when the Venti was introduced in 1996, that changed. The in-store menus used to only list short, tall, and grande. The Trenta cold is only supposed to be used for their “Teavana Shaken Iced Tea, Teavana, Shaken Iced Tea Lemonade, Iced Coffee, Cold Brew and Starbucks Refreshers,” but we have a feeling secret menu devotees find a way around these.

But some of us are still adjusting - or refusing to succumb - to their Italian-ish sizing nomenclature. Starbucks opened their first store back in 1971, which is somehow not 30 years ago.
