Starbucks Brian Nichols here. Brook Depal is here as well. Brian, good to see you as always.And Brooke, I mean, I just saw you in the office, so we're we're good to go. Uh Brian, Brooke and I were just talking about this quarter overquarter improvement in the US same store sales business. Like what was the biggest unlock compared to when we were just talking to you three months ago.>> Yeah, look, the Well, first of all, good morning, guys. Uh the the thing I would say is uh what I'm most excited about it is ...

About a week ago, you announced about a $und00 million investment in a new Southeast campus down in Nashville, Tennessee. 2,000 jobs or so are said to be going there over the next 5 years. That almost rivals uh the size of what you have out there in Seattle right now.Is this the start of an exodus from Seattle for Starbucks. For us, this really was more to do with being strategically smart about putting the resources uh we wanted to put in the southeast to take advantage of frankly a talent pool that's bein ...

But I got a big thinker here. I'm not talking about you, Davis. Joining us now, first on CNBC, Starbucks chairman, co Brian Nickel. Brian, how you been, buddy? >> I'm great. Good morning, guys. >> All right, so I'm going to do this cuz it was like your quarter. So many firsts. First first earnings beat in five quarters. First quarter of growth on of both top and bottom in more than two years. First quarter of consolidated margin expansions is the first quarter fiscal 2024. How are you doing all these firsts ...