Why this straw earns its place
White is the house straw. It is the one you buy when you do not want to make a colour decision at the point of service — it disappears against the glass, it does not argue with a garnish, and it sits inside whatever styling brief the room or the event has been given. Paper is what UK bars moved to after single-use plastic straws were banned from hospitality supply, and in a busy venue the straw is the last thing anyone should be thinking about, which is exactly what a plain white one delivers.
The 20 cm length is the useful part. In a highball or collins it clears the rim by enough that a guest finds it without fishing, and in a shorter tumbler packed with ice it still stands upright instead of sinking into the drink. Paper behaves differently from what it replaced: it softens the longer it sits in liquid, so it goes in when the drink is handed over rather than being loaded into empty glasses at the start of a shift, and it is stored dry and off the wet bar top. A straw that has been sitting in a splashed jar all evening is soft before it ever reaches a drink.
