A dollar saved is a dollar earned.

So a minute saved is what?

You're listening to Motleyful money.

I'm Mary Long, joined today by Mr. Osset Sharma.

Asset, good to see you. How you doing?

I'm great, Mary. How are you doing? Good to see you.

I'm doing well. We got reports from Starbucks today. That's the coffee chain that most listeners

are probably pretty familiar with. They're in the midst of a turnaround. They dropped

earnings yesterday after the bell. And I want to kick us off by focusing on Starbucks measurement of a different kind

of currency, not dollars, but time, offset. A big focus of Starbucks turnaround is returning the

chain to its golden age of being a neighborhood coffee house. But as a part of that, there's also a

focus on efficiency, right?

So management seems to think they're making good progress on that efficiency front.

The company shaved two minutes off its in-store wait times thanks to the help of a swanky

ordering algorithm. Asset, if you had an extra two minutes in each of your days, what would

you be doing with that time? Well, I'm not giving

it back to TikTok and YouTube shorts. I'm done with you guys. I'm grabbing the cast iron bookmark,

breaking out of that house, and I'm getting two minutes extra to read Orbital by Samantha Harvey,

which is my Middle Age men's book club read of the

month, and I'm sort of behind it.

I get it finished by Saturday.

So it sounds like you're being very, very productive with those extra two minutes.

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