Anybody giving Chipotle a 2nd chance?

ntfbfi wrote:

I've eaten there a handful of times since December. Not worried.

Qdobo is gross tasting.

Norm MacDonald has convinced me to go with the Colonel for dinner and the scary Asian food truck outside Boston City Hall for lunch. Healthy choices?

suburgatory wrote:

In my town there's a really good ripoff Chipotle place that knocks it out of the park. Seems like copying Chipotle's business model is becoming a trend, and it was even before the food poisoning thing. So no, there's no reason to give it a second chance.

There is nothing original about Chipotle.

The Chipotle by my house had 5 E. coli cases last month but I finally gave them another chance yesterday. Made sure to ask for extra E. coli when we got to the toppings station. Overall a good cheap meal.

Bleu wrote:

It's a scam. Chipotle is being singled out. I eat there as much as before the outbreak.

You all should be more concerned about the fact that our government has OKed our meat to be processed in freakin China. Think about that! I'll eat at Chipotle and you go to Outback and eat Chinese processed meat.

I think most people are blissfully ignorant about food processing. And no, your local quick Mex place isn't any better about their produce sourcing. Food service is a brutal business.

That said, having worked in the industry all the way up to industrial scale, no one I worked with was indifferent about prep.

You worry about China without understanding how poor the controls are here in the U.S. Also, the standards for American products are much lower than say, the E.U. anyway, so it's not a huge reach for a Chinese rancher, or a Mexican rancher, or pretty much any Central or South American rancher that already supply the U.S.

I tried Chipotle once. It was salty as h3ll and nothing else.

Nothing gets you running fast like Chipotle

No time soon!

I have had food poisoning twice and don't intend on ever doing it again. (Very-very bad experience!)

Although, I figure they are the safest restaurant in the world right now.

Nope. Wife refuses to go. I'm ambivalent.

Why take any chance at all?

Chipotle > McD's wrote:

I'll take the one in several million odds of getting e. coli at Chipotle over the nearly 100% chance of getting diarrhea at just about any other fast food restaurant.

I just ate my free burrito.

Brown rice

Black beans

Fajita mix

Chicken

Mild salsa

Guacamole

Sour Cream

Cheese

Howd i do?

I also just ate my free burrito.

Barbacoa

Brown rice

Black beans

Corn salsa

Sour cream

Cheese

It was delicious.

I don't eat out much so I probably won't be going back any time soon but it'd be on my list of lunch places the next time I do.

I was staying away, but they pulled me in with the free promotion. The place looked spankin' clean and they also threw in the chips that I get to turn my salad into nachos. This girl had a very heavy hand with the guacamole, so I was happy.

Went back again today to get the exact same thing and now feel slightly ashamed that it's so damn easy to distract me from the e.coli.

I never stopped going to Chipotle.Given all of the negative press, Chipotle is probably now one of the safest places to eat.Avoiding Chipotle is not going to keep you safe from food poisoning. Here's the CDC:

CDC estimates that each year roughly 1 in 6 Americans (or 48 million people) get sick, 128,000 are hospitalized, and 3,000 die of foodborne diseases. Estimating illnesses, hospitalizations, and deaths for various types of diseases is a common and important public health practice.

Chipotle is a negligible part of total illness in the US caused by food borne illness. If you are very squeamish or have reduced immunity, instead of avoiding Chipotle, you need to avoid uncooked foods, rare meat, salads, lettuce and leafy greens, bean sprouts, etc.

In lots of cities you can find health department inspections on line and read the results of inspections in all of your local restaurants. If you are really squeamish, reading them will keep you from ever eating out again. Chipotle is not anything special when it comes to food safety issues.

I'm not much into conspiracy theories, but I can't dismiss that it could be one. Granted I haven't been following it closely, but from what I understand no single source was found, and it was East and West coast, but nowhere in the middle. I work in logistics and this just doesn't seem plausible. This sounds more like a Sizzler deal than anything else.

Anyway, I used to work in food and know how disgusting our food is anyway, so considering the standard I don't see much of a difference.

Chipotle fired a manger for refusing to serve a black man she suspected had previously stolen food, despite the company knowing that he admitted on Twitter to repeatedly dining-and-dashing. A company spokeswoman said it had “no choice” but to take the word of the 21-year-old, who was convicted of theft in January and previously pleaded guilty to another theft charge, despite having no evidence that the manager wrongly accused him. St. Paul, Minnesota, resident Masud Ali posted a video on Twitter of Chipotle employees refusing to serve him and a group of black men after asking for proof that they would pay, saying that Ali had left without paying previously.

Ali has openly bragged about dining and dashing, according to his Twitter feed.

“Not a dine and dash we’re just borrowing the food for a couple hours,” Ali said in one of many messages on the topic of making off with free food.

In a since-deleted post, he said “aye man I think chipotle catchin up to us fam. should we change locations and yoooo what should we do.”

“Regarding what happened at the St. Paul restaurant, the manager thought these gentlemen were the same customers from Tuesday night who weren’t able to pay for their meal. Regardless, this is not how we treat our customers and as a result, the manager has been terminated and the restaurant [staff] has been retrained to ensure something like this doesn’t happen again.”

Ali said he didn’t appreciate being called a thief.

But he was sentenced to two years of probation in January for theft over $1,000, according to Minnesota court records. All but two days of a one-year jail term was suspended.

He also pleaded guilty to theft in November 2015 and received a year of probation, court records show.

Just a few months ago, another Chipotle manager was awarded $8 million by a jury for wrongful termination.

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And Chipotle SUCKS.

Flavorless.

Got a Freebirds? Go there.

Or get to SoCal, throw a dart, and go anywhere. Chipotle SUCKS.