Chipotle Understands When Your Dog Eats Your Gift Card
John's greyhound has no patience. If the dog had waited just a little while, the Chipotle gift card in a paper sleeve that his fiancée left on the kitchen table would have been magically transformed into food. But dogs don't think that way, and this dog really, really likes to chew up paper. And so the $50 gift card was destroyed.
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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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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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Chipotle Says Their Food Does Not Cause Underwear Blood
—>South Park managed to combine the late Billy Mays, the unfortunately still around Ghost Hunters, and the beloved Chipotle chain in their latest episode, with surprising results. More »
Chipotle's so-popular-they-had-to-discontinue-it iPhone app has been redesigned and is available for free at the iTunes store. What does this miracle software do? Well, it locates the nearest Chipotle, then lets you build your burrito, taco, whatever, add special instructions, and pay for your order. You can also save your favorites so you don't have to build the burrito each time. Fatness, here we come. [Gizmodo] More »
No Free Burritos From Chipotle On Tax Day, Again
—>Once upon a time, Chipotle used to give out free burritos on Tax Day — or so the story goes. Still, some people never forget. More »
Top 10 Fast Food Chains In Customer Satisfaction
—>Mmm, how satisfying. A recent survey by Sandelman & Associates, a market research and consumer-trends firm, shows that customers mostly prefer regional or smaller national fast food and chain restaurants to gigantic soul-destroying megafood joints like McDonald's. More »
Behold The Shocking Popularity Of Chipotle's Burrito-Ordering iPhone App
—>Yesterday, a magical new application appeared in the iPhone App Store. What did it do? Well, it allowed you to order burritos from Chipotle (for pick-up). From your iPhone. More »
Chipotle Closes For Hepatitis A Outbreak, Have A Coupon!
—> An anonymous tipster wrote to us about how Chipotle, known for their delicious, healthy burritos, handled a Hepatitis A outbreak at his neighborhood store. This might be the one case of a corporation giving you something for free, and it not making the situation any better. Read his letter, inside. More »
Chipotle Offers Excellent Customer Service Along With Free Burrito
—>Every Halloween folks from all over this great nation of ours put tin foil on their heads and go to Chipotle for a free burrito. The conceit is that you are "dressed like a burrito" for Halloween, but the good folks at Chipotle don't really care if your costume required things like "skill" or "effort." They just fork over the free burrito if they see tin foil. Bless them. More »
Meet Your Meat: Chipotle Distributes Photos Of Farms That Supply Their Restaurants
—>An angry reader wrote us yesterday asking if the photos he's been finding in his bag along with his Chipotle veggie burrito were legit. Matt wrote:
Last time I got the pigs out on the plains of super green grass (Grass won't last more than a day under pigs). Today was a lone adult chicken in an otherwise empty commercial coop, perfectly clean bird, on a perfectly clean floor. I know for fact chickens don't get moved from the time they are chicks, until the vacuum machine comes to box them for transport to the slaughter house. So where is all the bird shit and carcasses that succumbed to walking on the ammonia soaked floor? More »
Secret Menu Items Confirmed With Undercover Investigative Journalism
—>A reporter at the Arizona Daily Star decided to put our little Secret Menu Items post to the test by ordering the items at some of our nations finest fast food eating establishments. More »
The Really Big Guide To Secret Menu Items
UPDATE: We're looking to update this list. Click here to help! Not content ordering from the menu? Need to have that extra little bit of class that comes from "knowing the chef"? Here it is, your guide to secret menu items. Sure, it's not the secret rib eye at Nobu, but it's something. Before reading this please note that this article has not been fact-checked.
This report is based purely on reader suggestions. We are posting them entirely without confirmation and are not going to try to order any of this crap in order to confirm its existence. We would die of heart disease, be broke, and our ass would be the size of Texas. This is the internet, the internet is not fact-checked, and these are your secret menu items. Enjoy.
Guide to Secret "Off The Menu" Items/ Call for Entries
—>We've been hearing rumblings of secret menu-items at various restaurants and fast food places. Here's a round up of the most interesting ones: More »
Chipotle Serves Man With Broken Pinata of a Burrito
—>Daniel reports receiving a very flawed Chipotle burrito for lunch today. The preparers failed to strain the liquid in his salsa, causing his burrito to 'flood.' Despite 'visual communication of disappointment,' the handlers sent it for wrapping. More »
