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CEO Brian Niccol explains the company’s pivot back to its roots.

In a Tuesday earnings call, Starbucks CEO Brian Niccol said the coffee giant will cut 30% of its menu offerings this year as ...

“We don’t want to become a public bathroom, but we’re going to make the right decision a hundred percent of the time and give people the key,” Howard Schultz, the then chairman at Starbuck ...

At the time, Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said he didn’t want people to feel “less than” if they were refused access. “We don’t want to become a public bathroom, but we’re going ...

“Starbucks spaces are for use by our partners ... It marks a reversal from a policy instituted in 2018 by then-Chairman Howard Schultz, after an incident that sparked a national controversy.

At the time, Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said he didn’t want people to feel “less than” if they were refused access. “We don’t want to become a public bathroom, but we’re going ...

But the arrest, which was caught on video, was a major embarrassment for the company. At the time, Starbucks Chairman Howard Schultz said he didn’t want people to feel “less than” if they were refused ...