Comments on: I’ll take a “double grande” Starbucks passion tea lemonade please. (Cold drink sizes, tall, grande, venti, double grande)

By: Melody

Melody — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:33:24 +0000

Hi Lauren! Is the “trenta” size selling pretty well? Can I get one for an iced chai too? I’ve been trying very hard to get my hands on one of the Trenta cups so that I can do my own blog entry on it. A few people have uploaded pics of the cup here and there, but I was waiting for my very own Trenta cup before officially writing about it. But the bottom line is that Seattle is a little far away from Phoenix!

I think “Trenta” is actually a better name than the “Double Grande” cup featured in this blog entry. The double grande was 32 ounces, but I think it’s too confusing sounding of a name.

By: Lauren

Lauren — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 06:25:50 +0000

I am from Phoenix and at the Starbucks I go to, they are selling the trenta size for iced drinks. I agree that a trenta green tea would be nice on a hot summer day!

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Sat, 06 Feb 2010 05:03:02 +0000

Sorry this picture sucks. I took it with my camera phone. But this is a 31 oz. “trenta.” This is my second of the day and I can’t stop saying the name. Green tea lemonade-aholic. It is next to a 12 oz. bottle of Miller Lite.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/girlexposed/image001.jpg

By: Melody

Melody — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 16:32:27 +0000

Hi Jennifer! Thanks for finding your way to my site. The previous “double grande” test (photograph for this blog post) was for a 32 ounce drink. Not sure what difference one ounce makes.

Anyway, the idea of a 31 ounce Passion Tea Lemonade doesn’t seem weird to me at all – I know I could drink that in the summer. It’s just that would be too huge of a size for any kind of Frappuccino!

I’m trying very hard to get my hands on a “Trenta” cup to feature in a blog entry. Keeping my fingers crossed!

By: Jennifer

Jennifer — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 06:27:31 +0000

I’m a barista in Phoenix, Arizona and they’re test marketing the trenta (31 oz, although in Italian it means thirty… then again, the iced venti cup is 24 ounces, not twenty, so… meh) size at a store in our area. I haven’t seen it yet but a friend of mine purchased one and said it cost her around $3.70? Seems a bit pricey to me, to be honest… with tax here the venti size comes to $2.45 and that seems a lot for an iced tea… what do you guys think?

By: AusBarista

AusBarista — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 14:08:47 +0000

I could see this getting confusing if it were available for coffee beverages.

I can just imagine a customer coming in and ordering an iced ‘double grande’ latte, with my reply being, ‘the size, ‘double grande’ or a latte with two shots, coz they already come with two?’……

Kinda confusing in my opinion.

By: ONBarista

ONBarista — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 04:14:01 +0000

I think the name does make it sound like McDonalds…and I’m leery at this leading to huge fraps-which are already amazingly bad for you. Why not get back to the coffee instead of test marketing all this other fluffy stuff? I mean, I love the iced teas, but they are not what starbucks is supposed to be all about. Just my opinion.s

By: Hayley

Hayley — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 15:51:05 +0000

I haven’t seen this in any Tucson, AZ stores but we’re about 2 hours away from Phoenix. I’ll look the next time I’m there though…since it’s not often I get cold drinks I don’t look at the cold cups very much.

By: Melody

Melody — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:01:09 +0000

Do I have any baristas/customers in Phoenix reading this? I hear that Starbucks is testing a larger cold drink size again. The new test is for a “trenta” size – either 30 or 31 ounces.

I’m embarrassed to admit it, but I could easily drink a 32 ounce Passion Tea Lemonade!

By: Riki Yamada

Riki Yamada — Mon, 30 Nov 2009 04:18:24 +0000

Double grande DEFINITELY reminds of me Supersize Me. I suppose for TEA, this may be alright. But for anything else… it’s slightly preposterous, if you ask me.

I recently went to Japan, earlier this year. The vending machines there, ALL carried small-sized coffee cans & juice cans. At first, I thought, “Uh, I may need to get 2 or 3 of these. This isn’t going to suffice!” But once I drank 1 can (roughly 8 oz.), I was actually quite satisfied! Throughout the rest of my stay there, I purchased 1 can of coffee or juice periodically. Even @ Starbucks there, I ordered a ‘tall’ size caramel macchiatto & it suited me perfectly. Once I returned to the US, it made me realize that I only THOUGHT I needed the bigger sizes in drinks/food because it was offered!

Now I’m ALL about ordering the tall size drinks @ Starbucks; it’s less expensive & it does the trick that I once thought only a Grande or a Venti can satisfy. (Actually, I recently purchased a clear iced for-here cup, which only comes in the Grande size-so Grande!) But for hot drinks, I can live w/ a tall size & not feel like I’m missing out at all!