Today, Starbucks offers a whopping 170,000 drink possibilities to its customers – the equivalent of 465 cups a day for a year. The company’s website says there are six standard ways to customise a drink, namely selecting your milk, adding more or less syrup, adding sweetener, asking for less or no whip, making your drink 'skinny' and adding cold foam.

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