Teamwork! Starbucks CEO Schultz Is ‘Stunned’
Posted: November 9, 2016 Filed under: Entertainment, History, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner, Beyonce, Democratic Party (United States), Donald Trump, Donald Trump presidential campaign, Fortune (magazine), Hillary Clinton, Hillary Clinton presidential campaign, Howard Schultz, Parody, Republican Party (United States), satire, Starbucks, United States Leave a comment
‘But he asks his staff to respect the result’
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has made no secret of his disdain for Donald Trump.
In a letter to staff on Wednesday, Schultz said he was gobsmacked by the president-elect’s victory but said Americans had to respect the results.
“Like so many of our fellow Americans—both Democrats and Republicans—I am stunned,” Schultz wrote. 
“We cannot know what the precise impact will be on our country and the rest of the world. I am hopeful that we will overcome the vitriol and division of this unprecedented election season.”
Echoing the conciliatory tone of Trump’s opponent, Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton, and President Barack Obama in speeches Wednesday afternoon, Schultz said people needed to give Trump a chance to govern well.
In September, the politically outspoken Schultz endorsed Clinton for president, saying he remained optimistic about the country’s future, despite what he saw as an effort by politicians and the media to paint the nation with “cloudiness and despair.” Read the rest of this entry »
Howard Schultz: America Deserves a Servant President a Good Cup of Coffee!
Posted: August 6, 2015 Filed under: Food & Drink, Mediasphere, Politics, White House | Tags: Coffee, Democratic Party (United States), Democratic Party presidential primaries, Hillary Clinton, Howard Schultz, Maureen Dowd, Starbucks, The New York Times, United States Leave a comment
It’s election time. Will Howard Schultz run for president?
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Starbucks: Race Discrimination to Come?
Posted: July 13, 2015 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Law & Justice, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: Bias, Black, CBS Seattle, CEO, Coffee, Employment Discrimination, Hiring, Howard Schultz, Latino, Minority, National Review, Progressivism, propaganda, Race Discrimination, Race Together, Roger Glegg, Seattle, Starbucks, Wall Street Journal, White 2 Comments
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[VIDEO] Katherine Timpf Goes to Starbucks
Posted: March 23, 2015 Filed under: Food & Drink, Humor | Tags: Al Sharpton, Barista, California, Ferguson, Howard Schultz, Los Angeles, Manhattan, Missouri, National Review, New York City, New York City Police Department, Oakland, Seattle, Sociology of race and ethnic relations, Starbucks, The Reverend 1 CommentI Actually Went to Starbucks and Asked About Racial Issues — Here’s What Happened
Nothing was solved.
Katherine Timpf
writes: Since Starbucks launched its “Race Together” initiative — encouraging customers to have conversations about racial issues with its employees — there have been a slew of Internet think pieces about what’s right or wrong about it.
Some people said it was an awkward and a dumb idea. Other people said those people were racists. So — I decided to go out and see for myself what it would be like if I actually did what Starbucks was telling its customers to do. Read the rest of this entry »
CORPORATE RETREAT: Starbucks Baristas Stop Writing #RaceTogether on Cups
Posted: March 22, 2015 Filed under: Food & Drink, Health and Social Issues, U.S. News | Tags: #RaceTogether, Barista, Black people, Howard Schultz, Jim Olson, Race (human classification), Racism, Starbucks, USA TODAY 1 Comment
BRAND DAMAGE: According to a recently released internal memo, Starbucks baristas will no longer write ‘Race Together’ on customers’ cups starting Sunday
Starbucks spokesman Jim Olson says the campaign to create discussion on diversity and racial inequality will continue without the handwritten messages, which are phasing out as originally planned….(read more)
White Sugar, Brown Hand: Michelle Malkin’s Non-Starbucks Coffee Tweet #RaceTogether
Posted: March 17, 2015 Filed under: Entertainment, Food & Drink, Humor, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: #RaceTogether, Coffee, Howard Schultz, media, Michelle Malkin, Starbucks, Twitter Leave a commentAdding white sugar to my non-@Starbucks coffee with my brown hand. Diversity! #racetogether #shutupandsellcoffee pic.twitter.com/TngxfnJjNn
— Michelle Malkin (@michellemalkin) March 17, 2015
UPDATE: Starbucks Executive Deletes Twitter Account after #RaceTogether Campaign’s Predictable Humor Backlash
Posted: March 17, 2015 Filed under: Breaking News, Food & Drink, Mediasphere | Tags: #RaceTogether, Adam Brotman, Barista, Business Insider, Howard Schultz, McDonalds, Race (human classification), Seattle, Starbucks, Twitter, United States 1 Comment
UPDATE: Business Insider reports that a Starbucks executive has deleted his Twitter account after backlash about the campaign.
WNEW spoke with an employee at the M St. SE location who says he has not heard of the campaign.
There’s no word yet on whether any other locations in the D.C. area are participating…. (read more)
Starbucks Wants To Talk To You About Race
Posted: March 17, 2015 Filed under: Food & Drink, Mediasphere, Politics | Tags: #RaceTogether, Barack Obama, Barista, Howard Schultz, Los Angeles, race, Rudy Giuliani, Seattle, St. Louis, Starbucks, The New York Times, USA TODAY 2 Comments
Blake Neff writes: Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz has launched a new initiative that will encourage the company’s baristas to talk to patrons about America’s racial issues.
“If a customer asks you what this is, try to engage in a discussion that we have problems in this country in regards to race. And we believe that we are better than this, and we believe our country is better than this.”
To trigger the conversations, in the next week baristas will be encouraged to write the phrase “Race Together” on customers cups, which is intended to “facilitate a conversation between you and our customers,” according to Schultz.
“If a customer asks you what this is, try to engage in a discussion that we have problems in this country in regards to race. And we believe that we are better than this, and we believe our country is better than this,” Schultz said in a video shown to Starbucks employees, according to USA Today.
The campaign is being bolstered by an 8-page supplement that will be published Friday by the coffeemaker in USA Today. The supplement will include “conversation starters,” such as the statement “In the past year, I have been to the home of someone of a different race ___ times.”
The campaign is said to be inspired by the controversy emanating from the deaths of Michael Brown and Eric Garner last year, both of them black men killed by white police officers. What the initiative hopes to accomplish in the long run is unclear, though the company will be offering more information during its annual meeting on Wednesday.
The new effort is only the latest of the company’s actions that appear designed to bolster the company’s reputation as a socially conscious corporation. Last year, the company created a new program that allows employees to take free online college classes at Arizona State University.
The coffee is $4.25, the lecture is free. #Starbucks
— David Burge (@iowahawkblog) March 17, 2015
Not sure what @Starbucks was thinking. I don’t have time to explain 400 years of oppression to you & still make my train. #RaceTogether
— April (@ReignOfApril) March 17, 2015
When You’ve Lost Howard Schultz: Starbucks CEO Bails, says Obamacare ‘Off the Rails’
Posted: November 2, 2013 Filed under: Health and Social Issues, Politics, U.S. News, White House | Tags: CNBC, Howard Schultz, Obamacare, Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, Starbucks 1 Comment
Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz blasted the implementation of Obamacare on Thursday, just a month after he voiced his support for the law.
The socially-conscious CEO said “what the country needs now is real honesty and transparency and truth about what’s really going on.” He said Obamacare’s rollout was “unfortunate” for the American people because there is a lack of trust now in the law and the website.
”Unfortunately, in this kind of situation, execution trumps strategy,” Schultz said on CNBC. “It might be a great strategy, but the execution is really flawed. It’s off the rails.”
Schultz had previously said Obamacare was “a good thing for the country” in September.
