The Daily Beast reports:
The new CEO of Starbucks said Thursday that his company is prepared in the event that unrest breaks out around the election next week. Brian Niccol, who took over at the top of the coffee giant last month, was asked in a CNBC interview if he’d to make precautionary plans.
Squawk Box co-host Andrew Ross Sorkin told Niccol in the interview that he knows of leaders at other businesses—especially those that are customer-facing or involve making deliveries—who have to have plans in place in case there is unrest.
“We always have security monitoring what’s going on at all our stores,” Niccol said. “Our partner safety and customer safety is really important. Fortunately for us, we already have all these systems in place that in the event something happens, we’re prepared.”
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At least this one’s not running for president.