It is said on the Internet that Starbucks has influenced the size classification of beverage cups in Taiwan.

(Reuters)

[Instant News/Comprehensive Report] Taiwanese love to drink. In addition to more and more hand-cranked shops, even the sizes of drinking cups are becoming more and more varied.

A netizen pointed out on the PTT board that in the past, drinks were divided into small, medium and large, but now they have become medium, large and extra large.

Frankly speaking, changing the name will not change the number of beverages. I angrily ask who came up with this classification, causing consumption troubles.

As soon as this article came out, it attracted a large number of comments, and some netizens directly pointed out that the culprit was Starbucks.

A netizen asked on the PTT gossip board, which genius invented the beverage classification of medium, large and extra large cups.

He pointed out that in the past, the drinks in the breakfast shop were simply small, medium and large cups, but he did not know when they became medium, large and extra large cups.

The original PO couldn’t help complaining that changing the name like this would not increase the capacity of the drink, and it would also cause consumers to misunderstand, and even the clerk had to take on the responsibility of communication, explaining that the medium cup is actually a small cup, which would only increase the workload.

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As soon as this article came out, it immediately attracted many netizens to leave messages.

Many netizens echoed, "The change from the small cup to the middle cup is the real Beiqi, do you think changing the name will make people feel satisfied", "Agree, it's really annoying", "mentally retarded"; and many people I think the culprit is Starbucks, "Starbucks started", "Learn from Starbucks", "Starbucks originally had short cups, but later the menu was removed and the tall cups started to sell, but you told the clerk in the United States to ask for short cups? You can order it, but I don’t know about it in Taiwan.” When you actually check Starbucks’ official website, there is indeed a small cup size.

It is reported that the early Starbucks sizes were also divided into normal small (short), medium (tall), and large (grande). However, with the launch of the extra large (venti), the number of people who choose small cups has decreased significantly, so most physical stores , to move it directly out of the menu.

In addition, some people analyze that Starbucks uses a special size name to create a unique feature of the brand.