Howard Schultz, CEO of Starbucks, may be a bit unpopular at the country club for the next few weeks, after expressing support for an increased minimum wage on CNBC today. Not all of his CEO friends already pay close to what President Obama proposes.
As baristas declined to partake and customers complained, the downfall of Howard Schultz's utopian dream continued when AOL's Patch network declared an incredibly strange and possibly unethical partnership with Starbucks.
The country's biggest coffee company is getting into its country's politics! But how, exactly, will Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz rid Washington of its woe this time?
CEO Howard Schultz canceled a speaking engagement at the behest of a very small petition
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