Starbucks assistant manager accidentally calls 'grande' a 'large'

By Jerome E. Munee
Business Reporter

PHOENIX -- Serving a customer during the morning rush yesterday, Local Starbucks assistant manager Ray Moeller accidentally referred to the store's trademark "grande" sized coffee as a "large."

"The whole place suddenly came to a standstill," said co-worker Regina Styles. "One dude dropped his tall 2-shot vanilla foamy organic cafe mocha, and I had to go clean it up."

Moeller, a Starbucks employee for a year and a half, said he didn't know what possessed him to speak plain English.

"I don't know, it just came out," he said. "It's like I'd forgotten my whole six weeks of Starbucks vocabulary training. But I guess it's not too surprising; I was never good at foreign languages."