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Changing Over Chipotle Signs To Show Pork In Pinto Beans Will Take A Few Months
In late July, Chipotle
garnered kudos after CEO Steve Ells called up a fan who had been Tweeting his displeasure at discovering that Chipotle's pinto beans were cooked with pork. Ells pledged that the burrito chain would change all its menu boards to reflect the pork content. A few months later I walked into a Chipotle in Midtown and noticed their sign hadn't changed.
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Chipotle & Willie Nelson Team Up For Animated Anti-Factory Farm Ad
In a combination we never would've thought would be so likable, Chipotle has enlisted the help of Willie Nelson covering a Coldplay song to make an animated piece that is anti-factory farming.
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Study: One In Five Menu Calorie Counts Are Off By At Least 100 Calories
As restaurant chains begin rolling out menus with calorie counts, one has to wonder just how accurate that information is. A new study claims that nearly one out of every five menu items underestimates by at least 100 calories, with some major chains like Boston Market and Chipotle missing the mark on some items by more than 200 calories.
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Science Confirms In-N-Out Burger Is The Best And McDonald's The Worst
Almost a year ago, our survey-loving siblings at Consumer Reports asked several thousand readers to rate burgers from 18 burger chains and to no one's surprise,
McDonald's came in dead last. Not satisfied with merely finding the best and worst beef-on-a-bun, CR decided to go for the super-sized option, rating 53 restaurants in five categories to find which ones provide the best food, service and value to customers.
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Taco Bell CEO: If Chipotle Is BMW, We're Hyundai
Curiously Australian Taco Bell CEO Greg Creed has no delusions about the product his company sells. Not that he thinks it's bad food, but that that, well... you often get what you pay for when you buy an $.89 taco. And Creed doesn't really worry about competing with Chipotle.
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burrito in my belly, chipotle
Get Your Grubby Hands On Two Chipotle Burritos For The Price Of One
Oh hey burrito lovers, get off your salsa-loving butts and get on over to Chipotle before March 7 for a buy-one-get-one deal. All you have to do is sit through an ad for a TV show beforehand and you're golden.
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Chipotle Fires Hundreds Of Undocumented Workers, Faces Protests
Following an audit of employees' legal statuses, Chipotle fired between 350 and 700 undocumented employees at its Minnesota restaurants.
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This Chipotle Gift Card Is Kinda Chuckle-Worthy
You can say what you want about Chipotle's food, but whoever put together the legalese on the back of their gift cards has a pretty good sense of humor.
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Chipotle Is Hungry For More Junk Email
Last month Chipotle put out a call for customers to forward 500,000 junk email messages to nojunk@chipotlejunk.com, pledging to donate $50,000 to charity in return. Now the maker of foil-wrapped burritos has upped the ante, asking for another half million male enhancement and fake dating site queries in order to hike up its donation to $100,000.
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Be Jealous Of The Woman Whose Purse Was Slimed By Chipotle
Tanner says Chipotle hooked her up big-time after she bought a burrito bowl in San Francisco only to have the bowl come apart and splattered all over her purse.
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