Is Kenny G The Inventor of The Frappuccino?
2015.01.29
Kenny G is probably the only saxophonist you know, (but seriously, there are others too, okay?) But while he's great at playing the instrument, he may also be the creator of the world's most popular brain-freeze drink: the frappuccino.
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20 years ago, his uncle became the first guy that gave Howard Schultz (chairman and CEO) money to get Starbucks growing.
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Kenny let his tastes known giving suggestions to Starbucks. At first, they didn't have anything but coffee.
“… There was another company, Coffee Bean, that had something called ‘blended’ that was a sweet drink, and people were lined up around the block. And I would always call Howard and say, ‘Howard, there’s this thing that they do there that’s like a milkshake or whatever.’ And so I think that part of the reason that they did Frappuccino was people like me giving them that kind of feedback. So I’d like to think that I was partially responsible for that.”![kennyg3.gif kennyg3.gif](/files/attach/images/3004/152/853/014/kennyg3.gif)
So thanks, Kenny!
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