niccol takes over from laxman naraishman, who began work in april last year with a mission to reinventtarbucks but his performance disappointed investors. starbucks shares jumped after the announcement and chipotle�*s have dropped. market analyst victoria fernandez told us that illustrates the esteem in which investors hold the new boss. we see from the stock reactions of those two companies exactly what the market thinks about this move. and you have brian niccol, who has done tremendous work at chipotle. you have seen that stock grow. you have seen revenues grow. you've seen eps grow since he took over. and they're a company that, even from the pandemic forward, has continued to be able to raise prices and get a higher dollar value from consumers when they're pulling back in other places. we know from starbucks�* earnings over the last week, they did not have a good quarter at all, one of their worst quarters, so i'm not surprised that they're making a change. i am surprised it's this soon, and i think they're looking for brian niccol to do the same type of transformation, making sta