I've always kind of figured the idea behind calling it "Venti" was that it was tall like a smokestack and therefore well up into the wind.
The book Punching In, which has a chapter on working in Starbuck's, doesn't shed light on this. It does talk a lot about how much coffee-drawing stuff you learn with them.
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Wanna stop school shootings? End Gun-Free Zones, of course.
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