During the historic 2007 iPhone keynote, Steve Jobs famously called a local Starbucks and made a prank order for 4,000 lattes… enough for everyone at the Moscone Center to enjoy. He then said, “Just kidding. Wrong number. Goodbye!”
Amusingly, that quick prank call to demonstrate the iPhone’s Maps and Phone apps is still resulting in prank calls six years later. And even more incredibly, the barista who originally took the call still works at that Starbucks!
That barista’s name is Zhang, who goes by the name “Hannah” at work. Fast Company tracked her down to ask her about her famous interaction with Steve Jobs:
Sincere and sweet, Hannah has been working at the same Starbucks for more than a half-decade. “Honestly, I was shocked,” she recalls. “I have never heard somebody order 4,000 lattes to go. I didn’t say anything because I was shocked. But my first impression was that he was just being humorous. He sounded like a gentleman.”…
“Customers would sometimes come up to me and go, ‘Did you know somebody at your store actually talked to Steve Jobs?’ I feel very happy and lucky that I had a chance to actually talk to him. It means a lot to me that he picked our Starbucks,” explains Hannah, wearing her green Starbucks apron. “My friends were surprised and jealous, like, ‘Wow, you got a chance to talk to Steve Jobs?’ They say to me, ‘You should’ve said more! You just say Good morning and How can I help you.'”
Apparently, that particular Starbucks still gets prank calls to this day from Apple fans ordering 4,000 lattes, but until Fast Company started investigating the story, the manager of the store never put it together.
Oh, and one last thing: if Steve Jobs had ordered 4,000 lattes for everyone at the Moscone Center, Starbucks says it would have taken at least 48 hours to deliver.
Source: Fast Company
