- Starbucks opts for experience over culture
- Activist investor takes aim at Portillo’s
- Subway plans a big discount as it works to reverse a sales slide
- Welcome to the margin donation era
- Brian Niccol gets a big incentive to take the Starbucks job
Brian Niccol has the chops for the job. He spent years with Yum Brands, at Pizza Hut and then Taco Bell, where he was chief marketing officer and then president before he was named CEO in 2015.| Illustration by Nico Heins