[hughdbrown]

So here's an idea: why doesn't Starbucks create and distribute the names? A sticker goes on the cup and the secret agent gets the corresponding name on a piece of paper. Like, they print paper with two parts: one part is the sticker that goes on the cup and the other goes to the customer.

Or maybe do it inside-out: print the cups with some phrase on them and have paper that peels off with the same phrase to give to the customer. And do it across all the Starbucks stores. I'd like this: the number of times I have to explain "Hugh" [1] or get a cup that says Q or Hue or Hu is modestly annoying.

[1] That conversation goes like this, at least in my imagination: Me: Like Hugh Grant or Hugh Laurie or Hugh Hefner or Hugh Jackman or Hugh Brown. Barista: Who is Hugh Brown? Me: I am Hugh Brown and you are making my coffee.