Starbucks is rekindling America's love affair with coffee, bringing romance and fresh flavor back to the brew.

Good results is not an entitlement. It has to be earned and earned each individual working day via the lens of humility.

My passion. My commitment. This is the most important thing in my life other than my family.

On balance, I am a supporter of the minimum wage going up. We've got to be very careful what we wish for because some employers - and there could be a lot of them - will be scared away from hiring new people or creating incremental hours for part-time people as a result of that wage going up.

Many companies today are reducing hours of full-time people to get under the minimum so they don't have to pay health care costs. I just shake my head because that's not going to build long-term value and trust with your people.

More than anything else, technology will pave the way for innovative change at Starbucks. The bulk of Starbucks' innovation over the next several years will be technology-focused.

Don't buy preground coffee.