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Chipotle Goes on Hiring Spree of 15,000 Amid Strong Growth

• istjohn 4y ago
  Anecdotally, I used to love Chipotle, but I won't eat there anymore after having several bad experiences with bland food and undercooked rice at multiple locations.
  • onphonenow 4y ago
    Interesting- I wonder if new staff issues or changes in menu for food safety- we also dialed back for disappointing food but thought just local store. I am rooting for them - far less fried food and far less sugar
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  • Ancalagon 4y ago
    I’ve definitely noticed the quality of ingredients and cooking varies between locations
    • the_only_law 4y ago
      Yeah I stopped eating there after getting hard rice more than a few times. I’ve eaten it a few times since, with mixed results.
    • seanalltogether 4y ago
      I lived in Denver for 20 years and was kinda stunned the first time I went to a Chipotle in Massachusetts, it was like night and day.
      • abnry 4y ago
        Which was better, Denver or MA?
  • halfmatthalfcat 4y ago
    I’ve gotten food poisoning twice from Chipotle. I’ll never eat their meat again, but I’ll still get sofritas.
• post_break 4y ago
  I don't eat Chipotle, but the subreddit is my guilty pleasure program. I love reading about all the employees who quit after seeing how terrible that company is run.
  • ozarker 4y ago
    I love the walmart and target subreddits for the same reason, the stories in there are hilarious
• bluedino 4y ago
  Is this anything new? Every restaurant from Burger King to Benihana is hiring and has been for what seems like the last two years. The lines and horrendously bad food/slow service have pretty much kept me eating at home.
• andrewfromx 4y ago
  There is nothing cuter than my six year old daughter sticking her head into my office and asking “do you want chi-potal? Mom’s ordering chi potal.” The pronunciation kills me.
  • sovietmudkipz 4y ago
    :) As someone who likes to mispronounce things to play with words (and annoy my friends), I appreciate this. She's (probably) not doing it on purpose like I do but I've pronounced chipotle many different ways "chi-potal" being one of them. Fun!
    • throwaway019254 4y ago
      In that case, here is one more way to pronounce it. You should definitely try it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ADu3tHanP8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ADu3tHanP8
    • ripe 4y ago
      It's a thing in my family. We all pronounce it chip-puttle.
      • lotsofpulp 4y ago
        In ours, it is chi-pot-el.
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  • mensetmanusman 4y ago
    Not sure why, but it reminds me of when my daughter at 4 asked: “Q: Where do hiccups come from? A: Rainbows?”
  • twic 4y ago
    Yes, Chipotle, the microprocessor-based replacement for Aristotle.
• polalavik 4y ago
  chipotle is possibly the only fast food / fast casual that feels somewhat healthy. Real, whole food. Minimal fried options. Decent value. I wish more players occupied that niche. The quality over the last 3 years has been abismal though regardless of which location I go to. The food prep stations are always a mess by the end of day - verging on health hazard. The meat seems to have gone down in quality too. Every time I’ve eaten there in the last 2 years I’ve thought to myself “god chipotle sucks now I’ll never eat here again” But every other month or so I’m by a chipotle, trying not to eat complete garbage, in a time crunch, and trying not to spend $17 on processed food and chipotle is there waiting to disappoint me. Again.
  • plutoplanet 4y ago
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    • the_gastropod 4y ago
      There is no compelling scientific evidence that seed oils are unhealthy. https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/scientists-debunk-seed-oil-health-risks/ https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/news/hsph-in-the-news/scientist...
      • m0llusk 4y ago
        That is just one study among many and as such is a poor summary of science in this area. Contrast this with soybean oil being linked to metabolic and neurological damage to mammals: https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200117080827.htm https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/01/200117080827.h... The science here is still in contest, but there is significant evidence to argue over.
      • 0xcde4c3db 4y ago
        Seed oil bashing goes way beyond merely lacking scientific backing; it's literally just a 4chan meme that escaped containment and then got confused for a serious argument.
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• gboss 4y ago
  Everytime I eat chipotle an hour or two later I get a sharp stomach pain and then an intense bathroom episode. My partner and I call it Chi-poo-poo because of it. I always swear to never go back but then do. No other fast food does that to me
  • DrThunder 4y ago
    What are you putting on your burrito/bowl? It's probably just one of the ingredients. Pickled jalapenos or queso usually get me, but I still get them sometimes anyway.
  • jerf 4y ago
    Do you get beans? Infrequent consumption of beans can do that. That's not related to Chipotle itself, it's a characteristic of beans, even treated as well as they can be.
    • gboss 4y ago
      I do, but I eat beans frequently, with out the same effect. Usually I get a burrito bowl. The same ingredients elsewhere do not have the same effect. I don’t know. I know people love it and I can see why. I even go back
• newaccount2021 4y ago
  ok laid off hackers, no more complaining that you can't find work!
• throwingrocks 4y ago
  Fast food? HA! That’s for the common man. Not me. I cook every meal and haven’t eaten out in 50 years.
• dsq 4y ago
  FAANGs firing, fast food hiring. Is there a real insight to be had here? Or is this a blip (no offense to folks who lost jobs) that will soon be covered by other economic events?
  • Melting_Harps 4y ago
    > FAANGs firing, fast food hiring. Is there a real insight to be had here? Or is this a blip (no offense to folks who lost jobs) that will soon be covered by other economic events? It's no different than in 2008 when you had a glut of STEM and non-stem workers all being coaxed into hospitality and retail after promises of social mobility and incurring large debts, where sadly most have remained despite having a college/university degree. It's the unpayable debt, low to no wage growth and the frustration and apathy that festers that should be he bigger worry, because Gen Z really doesn't care what happens to the World after what they saw us millennials go through. I think this will impact many, but just ike in 2008, most will be forgotten and wonder why the homeless problem just keeps getting worse in SV and sheepishly go about their day in their coddled bubble as they had before.
  • chestervonwinch 4y ago
    Get a degree in STEM, they said. Don't want to end up flipping burgers, they said.
    • red-iron-pine 4y ago
      You aren't flipping burgers -- you're steaming burritos. In that sense, your degree was successful, no burgers in sight.
• nebula8804 4y ago
  Based on all the comments in this thread about people not going to Chipolte anymore due to quality issues, I wonder if there is a slow moving collapse moving through the restaurant industry where they are losing customers permanently and haven't realized the impact yet. If this is the case, I wonder how long the stock market will take to internalize this. I work for a large legacy F500 company that is internally a disaster and ticking time bomb, yet I look at the stock price and cannot believe how it continues to slowly go up. It really made me realize the stock market has no actual clue on how companies are really doing. Its all a bunch of nonsense. This is why I think about other industries that have already internally collapsed but the world hasn't realized it yet.
  • Melting_Harps 4y ago
    > Based on all the comments in this thread about people not going to Chipolte anymore due to quality issues, I wonder if there is a slow moving collapse moving through the restaurant industry where they are losing customers permanently and haven't realized the impact yet. Yes, very much so; in fact I would attribute this entirely to the utter disrepute that govenrments enacted during covid on this Industry. Speaking as a former Cook, the last brick and mortar in the US I worked at had a James Beard Award, the level of mediocrity that has set in the BOH culture has discouraged anyone who is self-respecting professional from ever wanting to re-enter a kitchen is prevalent: the messiness, unprofessional, outright dirty way of working has become the norm. I could rant for ours of way that is, but I attribute it most to the following: 50,000 line cooks died during covid, alongside with meat-packers, it was te most deadliest job in te US, far exceeding medial professionals who were the front-line of the pandemic itself! Oroporations were allowed to operate while privately owned brick and mortars, many who didn't have any experience in take out, were left playing catch up and had delays with PPP, lost of staff ever-rising food and labour costs, supply chain delays etc... tis allowed corps like Chipolte to et evre nmore market sare in wat was already a a war of attrition with low profit margins. > If this is the case, I wonder how long the stock market will take to internalize this. I work for a large legacy F500 company that is internally a disaster and ticking time bomb, yet I look at the stock price and cannot believe how it continues to slowly go up. Personally speaking, I kind of want the restaurant Industry to collapse, it doesn't deserve to exist in it's current form and I would rather people learn to cook from YouTube videos and buy as much as tey can locally from their farmers market, ideally organic and biodynamic. In my local market CSA shares were sold out months ahead of schedule with the shortages began in 2020 and I left satisfied that this if trend could and should continue it was worth destroying the Industry once and for all--people finally had time to learn how to bake breads and it set off a social media meme. > It really made me realize the stock market has no actual clue on how companies are really doing. Its all a bunch of nonsense. It always has, remember that while unemployment skyrocketed so much so it overwhelmed the systems in most states and created an immense backlog, the stock market was hitting alltime highs: it was totally disconnected from reality, but because of QE and the massive bailout packages and stimulus it soard to new ATH and that money made its way into then tech darlings like pelaton or Doordash which had limited (at best) true value, but allowed softbank to cash on thier billion dollar mal-investment with a lucrative IPO! > This is why I think about other industries that have already internally collapsed but the world hasn't realized it yet. You're not alone, anyone who has paid attention realized that 2008 marked the last shred of sanity the markets had to function close to anything resembling reality: it kicked off a horrible set of chain reaction with dire consequences that have only gotten worse over time. I'm less concerned with tech layoffs than most around here, mainly because I knew they were coming since at least December '21 when the stock market started to turn sour and things like growth stocks in tech were seen as a bubble that had run it's course. I'm more worried about the impact that the fed is having by wanting to push unemployment higher with ever-increasing interest rates, in Industries whose pay is way lower and hasn't kept up with inflation for decades. That is how you have peasant revolts and things like Jan 6th occur, because the truth is Society needs cleaners, and trash men more than need investment bankers or a bloated tech staff in order to not collapse as proven by COVID.
• tombert 4y ago
  Are we going to hear about mass layoffs due to this hiring spree in two years? Is this going to be another case of a gambling-addicted CEO using humans as poker chips?
• DanCarvajal 4y ago
  Back in the day when I thought they were a very good value for quality my significant other and I would go there ALL the time. Date night was splitting a burrito and chips then catching a movie. Eventually when we got married we actually had Chipotle catering for our wedding, yes the wedding. However, I echo the comments that it's not what it once was. I blame the queso introduction, they went through three versions and still have made a good product which now looks indicative of their larger issues. I sincerely hope they turn it around.
  • astura 4y ago
    From what I understand they did a 180 after the food poisoning outbreak. This is all from memory from an article I read at the time. Basically, their selling point was preparing ingredients on-site, however, they didn't seem to have the staff to do so safety and corners ended up getting cut and there was widespread food poisoning. They had to pay out millions. To rectify the situation they started preparing some ingredients in central locations ahead of time.
  • soupfordummies 4y ago
    Man, I miss their original queso so much. I loved it! But then they caved to all those who wanted "white queso that tastes like every other white queso". I still get the new one, I still think it's marginally better than somewehere like Moe's but it ain't as good as the original!
• lotsoweiners 4y ago
  While their food ingredients don’t seem as good as they used to be, the chips and salsa are still just as addictive. I can’t go there without eating an entire order by myself in addition to my vegetarian burrito bowl. It turns a relatively low calorie meal into a high calorie affair.
• wwarner 4y ago
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