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Kenny G invented the Frappucino
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 29 January 2015
Kenny G is responsible for a lot of things. All of them bad. This apparently now includes the Frappucino, which he reckons Starbucks invented to shut him up.
Speaking to Bloomberg, G revealed that he was an early investor in Starbucks, and as a result got a direct line to CEO Howard Schultz. “At the beginning, Starbucks didn’t have anything but coffee”, explained the saxophonist. “And 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 he rambled on: “So 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 would like to think that I was partially responsible for that”.
It’s not that good a story really, is it? Doesn’t deliver on the headline or the initial build up in the report itself. Serves you right for reading something about Kenny G.