National Starbucks Day

How to Celebrate National Starbucks Day

Get involved with National Starbucks Day on your own or with friends by trying out some of these ideas, or come up with some creative ideas of your own:

Get Coffee at Starbucks

Of course, National Starbucks Day is the day to head over to a nearby Starbucks location. In a hurry? It’s easy to go through the drive-thru and get that coffee to go. But it almost might be nice to take a little bit of time to head inside, sit down, relax, and savor that delicious cup of coffee.

Send Starbucks to a Friend

Since many Starbucks locations now offer delivery options through Uber Eats or other services, it’s easy to get online and order Starbucks for anyone. In celebration of National Starbucks Day, send a favorite Starbucks drink to a friend, boyfriend, family member, or business colleague. It’s a fun way to surprise someone and celebrate the day.

Get a Snack or a Sandwich from Starbucks

Not feeling like a cup of coffee at the moment? No problem! Starbucks has many other options for eating and drinking. Try out a yummy snack, such as a slice of fresh baked banana bread, cookies, cake pops, yogurt and other tasty options. Or, take advantage of Starbucks savory food offerings including breakfast egg sandwiches, oatmeal bowls, bagels, deli sandwiches or protein boxes.

Learn About Starbucks Drink Sizes

Many people tend to find the way that the drinks sizes work at Starbucks to be a bit confusing. The reason it has developed this way has to do with when marketer Howard Schultz brought back ideas from a visit to Italy in 1983. The original sizes were typically European, with Short coming in at 8 ounces, Tall at 12 ounces and Grande at 16 ounces.

These worked for a while but, as drinks are usually much larger in America, the Short was eventually abandoned by Starbucks in favor of a larger size, the Venti, which serves up a 20 ounce drink. It was named this because “venti” is the word for twenty in Italian. But with this change, in a slightly baffling turn of events, the small of the main hot coffee drinks served at the stores became the “Tall”.

Later, in 2011, the American thirst for cold drinks edging toward bucket-size ushered in the Trenta, which holds a whopping thirty ounces and is actually only used to serve cold drinks.

One more drink that should be noted, but is hardly ever used is the Demi. This is a 3 ounce cup that is strictly used for shots of espresso and the word originates from the French word demitasse, which means “half cup”.

Brew Starbucks Coffee Beans at Home

For those who find it a bit pricey to go to Starbucks on a regular basis, or who just prefer to make their coffee at home, it’s still possible to celebrate National Starbucks Day! They offer a few different varieties of roasts that can be purchased either in a Starbucks or they can also be found in many different grocery store locations around the world.

Many Starbucks locations also sell various selections of coffee cups, travel mugs and even methods for brewing. This may include a French Press, travel presses and even espresso machines so that making your own tasty cups of coffee at home is a viable and fun option.

Hold a Starbucks Coffee Taste Test

Brewing coffee at home can be a fun adventure. And learning which kinds of coffee are your favorites can be a delicious and satisfying activity. Grab a few friends and host a Starbucks coffee taste test. Or, host a taste test in the break room at work! Brew some of these different Starbucks blend coffees to see which is preferred:

• Starbucks Veranda Blend. This blonde roast coffee is the lightest of Starbucks blends, with hints of baking chocolate and toasted malt.
• Starbucks Pike Place Roast. Named after the original location in Seattle, this blend of coffees hails from Latin American and the blend offers subtle flavors of toasted nuts and cocoa.
• Starbucks Siren’s Blend. Inspired and created by the women who blaze trails in the coffee industry, this blend of beans has citrus and chocolate flavors. With the purchase of each bag, Starbucks makes a donation to charities that champion women in coffee-growing communities.
• Starbucks Odyssey Blend. Uniquely zesty, with flavors of tangerine and wild honey, the Odyssey Blend also helps to support innovations that are beneficial to the environment.

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