I wonder if he has ever made a caramel ribbon crunch frappucino

He looks like he goes home every night after work to research if any Starbucks employees has an onlyfans so he can get them to send him feet pics

we got a new CEO?

He better be lax, man.

In my Michael Scott voice..”you’re not from paper? Does David Wallace know that?”

Time will tell i guess, wikipedia and search results on this guy seem to be pretty plain and good. Not just some business exec, he has a masters in mechanical engineering and is fluent in 6 languages, working at multiple places over the world. Honestly anything is better than Kevin Johnson, fuck that dude.

Like absolutely nothing is going to change.

Wait I though Howard came back?

Link to one of the articles, it was only just announced

https://wnyt.com/us-news/starbucks-names-former-pepsico-executive-as-new-ceo/

I was wondering if he was part of the marketing and strategy team when Starbucks partnered with Pepsi to sell Starbucks products like the double shot and bottled Frappuccino.

He looks like the kind of douchebag who would pretend to seriously enjoy practically standing on an airplane seat in order to sell the idea to the general public.

Looks like a tea drinker

oh great another pinkerton

is this the dude that was talking about the portable cold foam blenders

I'm scared

We're still gunna suffer lol

Bad news y’all…. He used to work for McKinsey

Unless he makes some radical changes that are detrimental to top-level corporate and super beneficial to us, I’m not gonna like him.

Really? What’s the tea now?

He looks exactly like a ceo

Looks like he is farting

Anyone's better than howard at this point lmao

immediately no

Hailed as being a great leader through the pandemic... He was the CEO for a multi-national company that specializes in selling hygiene/health products. The pandemic played a large part in the company's success during his tenure.

He has experience with Unions but does he approve or oppose?

If we are basing his ability to lead consumer facing brands on his tenure with a large brand that has had a majority of upwards development since '85 (Pepsi), it might be a bit skewed.

Has 30 years of experience between only 3 companies. 2/3 of which being at McKinsey, and the other 1/3 divided between Pepsi and Reckitt Benckiser

Yes, let's note that he began his career at McKinsey. I management consulting company based in Delhi, India. One of the biggest consulting firms in the world. Has led to some of the largest examples of corporate reform ever.

What is failed to mention here is that it also cut jobs and was involved in the '08 market crash. And while it has, for lack of a better term, 'innovated' corporate reform, was also part of some of the largest scandals ever.

Paid almost $10 million up front to acquire him in addition to a $1.3m salary. He is being brought in with no knowledge of the company and their values. They are taking 7 months to teach him about the company. This says a lot about the management hiring system. Outside hires with no experience instead of developing partners with ambition to learn more about and develop the company that rose them to this position.

It's interesting that he, a man with corporate reform knowledge, is being brought on at the same time that Starbucks is completely going against their third place ideals by focusing on mobile ordering and a fast drive through experience. People are no longer encouraged to sit down and have a coffee like a normal coffee house. Being from a college town, this drives an entire demographic away. Students would rather pick up their coffee and go back to their dorm/apartment because it's not a relaxing experience to be in the stores.

\*Disclaimer\*

I have not been and am still not pro Starbucks Union but based on this decision and some of the experiences that partner's have had in the last year, I can see why people would be. I don't think that the Union is needed because I feel that a large majority of the problems come from poor store management. However, I don't think that this is a good CEO choice. This says so much to me about how Starbucks chooses to run their company.

Also, Starbucks has one of the best benefit packages for a entry level job. We get a good base rate in relation to many entry level jobs. No, it's not a living wage, which is a point that I can agree on for what Union supporters want, but until it's Federal law I don't think anything will be done about it.

And in my store, we don't have the problems that a lot of these stores say that they do. Perhaps my store is just lucky. But we've also been lucky to have an incredible manager who is unfortunately departing the company after 15 years of employment, half of which being managerial. He has run all three stores in the area, both separately and jointly while other stores were between managers. He puts in 50+ hour weeks to make sure our store is running smoothly and has been asked why he does so as he is only supposed to work 40 (He does stuff like that because he cares.). He understand that people have lives outside of work. I have requested a lot of time off over my tenure with Starbucks and have only been denied one time, and was only because he could not do it. However, he managed to find a way to do it post schedule release. After all the things he has done for the company and for the Partners, when he spoke of his resignation, he was told "I look forward to seeing it."

I am extremely angry about his departure, however I'm also happy for him that he is getting away from this toxicity. He has been the best manager I've ever experienced. He treated us like people, and many times like friends. I truly loved having him. \*End Simp\*

WHO?!

Idk what it is but he looks AI generated, it's the smile man it looks so uncanny

CNBC says he does step in until April, oof. I just want Howie gone please

Looks like a shithead businessman.

I work for the company he is leaving.

I am very saddened to hear that he is going. He has made huge changes in the culture at RB:

- introduced Employee Resource Groups to help disadvantaged employees get equal footing in the company and help establish their careers

- mandated diversity in the company leadership roles, getting rid of the old white mens club and having multiple ethnicities of both genders.

- has regular town halls with the employee base, communicating what he is doing why he is doing it, answering questions. He’s even had me invite viewers from webcasts to join him live to talk to him.

- regarding mane suites trying to unionize, if he comes in and welcomes them I would not be surprised, he has been very employee focused on the three years that he was with us.

- he takes the time to learn. He’s not going to walk in and try making changes based on dollars and cents. He’s come and worked the line making Lysol wipes during a pandemic. He come to the factories to cheer on the employees making Enfamil when Abbot had their recall and we tried to fill the sudden void in the market.

There’s people who say he’s made some bad decisions that were covered up by Lysol, Mucinex, and Enfamil going gangbusters the last three years. I can’t speak for that.

I can speak for the culture that he instilled in a short amount of time to make everybody feel like they are important, like they are working towards something, and that they know what that something is.

Plus he’s funny as hell and you’ll love his mom, who’s made many appearances on his town halls when he worked from home during the pandemic.


I’m a nobody in this company, but each time he came to the states he still made sure to say hi to me because of the work I’ve done on his broadcasts.

He’s a legit human being first, and treats others that way.

I think you’ll like him.

I know we’ll miss him

Why did I find out about this from a customer first tho 😂😂😂😂

Wow awesome!

He won’t be able to fix the issues at Starbucks or make the company better for employees. He spent the first 20 years of his career at McKinsey and Company; McKinsey is one of the main causes of the middle class being destroyed in America.

He may be better than Kevin Johnson but he will still be awful just wait and see. Starbucks will continue its trend of cost-cutting and shareholder value maximizing to the detriment of everyone else but mostly partners (customers matter but we don’t).

Just hope he is for the partners, and not just business.

Former Partner, but I’m curious as to how he went to school for engineering and ended up being CCO of PepsiCo and now this. Good luck y’all

Oh lord, we went from becoming McDonald’s under Mr. Kevin, to some random ass guy from PepsiCO? WHAT HAPPENED TO HIRING FROM WITHIN!? PEOPLE WHO KNOW STARBUCKS!? LIKE PEOPLE WHOVE BEEN ON THE DAMN FLOOR!!??

Partners my ass ….. *hard eye roll and side eye at Howard* …. It’s giving Howie just wants to retire smh

Is he getting barista training?

Feeling kinda relieved that I quit today...new ceos always change something annoying.

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We got a what now?

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He looks cross-eyed

Well he ticks the diversity box, which the company will surely use as a talking point every chance it gets. Some people will never be satisfied because he’s not a she, but you can’t please everyone.

Why all CEOs from India

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