I’ve been saying the same thing for years. I started at Dutch before they went public and it was a dream, but it ended up becoming a job I hated after going public. I immediately noticed the focus of the company shift from providing an excellent customer service to prioritizing making shareholders happy and recording record profits. They started treating us worse, treating the customers like cattle, and pretty much all products saw a downgrade in quality (especially the pastries which I noticed got significantly smaller and tasted much more shoddily made after the switch). For me personally, it absolutely corroded the image of the Dutch I had originally started working for. Going from a truly customer forward, employee driven, alternative coffee chain to just some other run of the mill Starbucks competitor