Fast Food Drinks Sizes Should Be Based Upon Volume, Not Small, Medium, Large, etc.
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 1/11/2015 1:00:00 AM
When you order a drink in a fast food restaurant, you never know how big the drink will be. Isn't that stupid?
Have you noticed that drink sizes in fast food restaurants are completely arbitrary?
Every restaurant has their own definition of drink sizes. A Small in one restaurant could be the same as the Large at another. To make matters worse, some restaurants like to use their own names.
Today they have names like:
Child Size
Extra Small
Small
Medium
Regular
Large
Extra Large
Biggie
King Size
Short
Tall
Grande
Venti
Gulp
Big Gulp
Super Big Gulp
So is a Biggie at Wendy's bigger than a Large at Burger King?
Starbucks Venti is actually the only one that makes sense, because it means 20 (ounces). The rest are arbitrary names.
This made me realize that ordering drinks would be a lot easier, especially for people who are trying to monitor their sugar, if they simply put the volumes on the menu, instead of small, medium, large, etc.
This begs the question... What sizes would the typical restaurant offer?
Most people (in the US), ounces are easier than metrics, but as long as metric units are in Liters or (instead of ML), people have no problem understanding what to expect.
So, using ounces, I think starting with 8 ounces, then making 4 ounce additions would be so much easier to understand than that ambiguous list of sizes above.
8 oz
12 oz
16 oz
20 oz
24 oz
Using Metrics:
1/4 Liter
1/2 Liter
1 Liter
1.25 Liter
1.5 Liter
Wouldn't it be a lot easier to simply say "I'd like a cheeseburger, fries and a 12 ounce Coke"?
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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