Chipotle To Close All Stores Next Month For Meeting On How Not To Poison People
Chipotle poisoned some folks.
America’s love affair with “fast casual” darling Chipotle ended in a wave of severe nausea last year as a food poisoning outbreak that started in July spread to multiple states and sickened hundreds of patrons.
Since last summer, authorities have tied Chipotle to at least six outbreaks spanning two types of bacteria (E. coli and salmonella) and one virus (the “winter vomiting bug”).
As The Chicago Tribune recounts, the incidents “included one that started in October in Oregon and Washington and spread to seven other states, sickening more than 50 people by mid-November, [one in] December [in which] about 200 were sickened by norovirus after eating at a Chipotle in Boston, five cases of E. coli poisoning in Kansas, North Dakota and Oklahoma, five illnesses tied to one Seattle store in July, 100 illnesses [linked to] an outlet in Simi Valley, California,” and an unfortunate episode “in September [when] more than 60 fell ill in Minnesota.”
That’s a lot of sick people and as you might image, the stock fell ill as well, dropping some 40% since the first reported cases.
Now, the chain is set to hold a kind of ad hoc “try not to poison anyone” meeting on February 8, when all stores will close “for a few hours” so that management can “discuss some of the changes [its] making to enhance food safety, to talk about the restaurant’s role in all of that and to answer questions from employees.”
Yes, "questions from employees", who might ask if their jobs are on the line after same store sales collapsed 30% in December and after the company was served with a Grand Jury Subpoena in connection with an official criminal investigation being conducted by the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Central District of California.
They might also be concerned with the dozens of lawsuits Bill Marler, a food safety litigator in Seattle, says he's about to file.
Perhaps management can calm employees' frayed nerves the same way they calmed the market: by explaining that buybacks will always cure what ails you.
(the magic of the buyback as seen on January 6)
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ate there once. didn't get sick, but the meat was all gristle and grease. don't understand the attraction.
still licking your chops though
watch for a tent over each store at that time
This is what happens when you go against big GMO.
Monsanto poisoned Chipotle's food supply!
That stock was one of the bigger pump and dumps since 2009. I watched that stock go up in awe. Was confused on what to trade there? Fast food wasn't new and McDonalds has that market cornered anyway. I hope these CMG pumpers go to jail.
I think it was the 70s when Kentucky Fried Chicken served someone a deep fried rat.
Never ate there again.
Deep frying is their saving grace. I don't eat anything at a restaurant that isn't cooked/fried. I might eat a salad in the summer, when I'm feeling lucky.
Chipoltle is putting 'fresh' on most everything. It's not practical.
Chipoltaway !
Odd that all this started to happen about 10 seconds after they went 'no GMO'
If I were starving to death and only had a Chipotle or Grass to eat I'd eat grass first.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKXZoSDUbK8
"still licking your chops though"
yes, and when they re-open, new slogan will be, 'you can lick out chops; but you can't beat our meat'
Hipster shit. They're still eating fast food but think they're too good for taco bell or mcds.
Oh. So your name is RALPHHHH
And you drive a BUICKKKK
-Cheech and Chong
i knew it was bad when they had porto-potties outside the store near me, just in case
Yup! Tried Chipotle a couple of years ago. Meat was all gristle. Worst Mexican food I've ever eaten. Don't ever need to go back.
Bigass conference call with MBAs on the line. What could go wrong?
Employee: "So you're telling me that I have to wash my hands after I wipe my ass!? You gonna have to pay me extra for that, boss!"
Should be easy enough to update the training flowchart, just insert a triangle that says "wash hands" between the triangles that say "wipe ass" and "roll burrito". Maybe a little question box after "stuff taco" that says, "did I sneeze into the taco yes/no", that a "no" loops back around to "stuff taco". I think this much ado about nothing, quite frankly.
Unless, of course, you own a business that helps manufacture one of those auto-burger-flipping thingumbobs, then you should be paying attention. An automatic-chalupa-flanagler might find itself in high demand one of these days.
No more spitting in the customers food ?
How novel.That would make them different from Taco Bell.
"Employee: "So you're telling me that I have to wash my hands after I wipe my ass!? You gonna have to pay me extra for that, boss!""
They determined early that the food coming into the kitchen was NOT contaminated. So it must be contaminated in the kitchen. Either the equipment isn't kept clean or the employees aren't. I doubt the problem is confined to Chipotle. They are just in the spotlight now.
From another angle, food in general is very clean in the US compared to other countries. Maybe Americans need to strengthen their resistance so the don't get sick all the time or, maybe we should do away with tort lawyers who make serving the public into a lottery. Every human gut is full of E. coli and it doesn't come from Chipotle.
If their bathrooms have those motion sensor sinks and soap dispensers, then NOBODY EVER washes their hands because those god damned things never work.
But there are a lot more problems at cmg. Seattle health department closed one of their stores for not keeping food hot enough. Don't trust any quick fixes or promises.
And here I thought from reading ZH that only the gument fucked up.
the gubmint will make it worse.
Didn't they get caught hiring a bunch of illegals a few years back?
shit, they don't need a few hours to teach the help how to wash their hands.
boy im starvin...
what do say we get some Chilpoisin....
ps: the Fed is engaged in an Epic battle to push the Dow above 16k and avoid a 400 plus point loss...
fucking hilarious.............
......and its up 19 dollars on the news.......
bizarro world
only 35 x 2016 earnings... wahta fucking steal!!
That, wink, wink, Stabilization Fund.
for sure...
im mean what do they think they r accomplishing.....?
Down 1750-ish in 30 days. Looks good broseph.
They serve Americans the freshly shitted on 'organic vegetables' from Mexico.
Cramer says take your Go-Pro to shoot video while you build your Chipotle burrito.
with the few shekels you have left after taking his advice?
Maybe they are going to put those foggers in all their stores?
"Closed for fumigation, will be serving healthy food tomorrow."
pods
There is a theory floating that Chipotle has been sabotaged by someone in the pro-GMO camp. I happen to be in a position to know whether this is true. It is.
I can't back that assertion up with a link, but for what it's worth, my most reliable source has it that a specific entity is responsible for the sabotage.
Think of a large, multinational corporation that is trying to corner the food supply of the entire planet and dictate that the only thing going into the human body is what it decrees goes into the human body.
Results reported so far is that Chipotle will no longer source local vegetables, and it's moving the operation of slicing tomatoes to a "central" location.
Hopefully Chipotle will be able to stick with sourcing as much non-GMO food as possible. Hard to say what Monsanto has up its sleeve next though.
Oh. Whoops.
Best be sure Vani, founder of Foodbabe.com & the food babe army is on the case.
Monsanto bought Blackwater (XE) for a reason...sabotage is what they do best.
And here I was thinking some of the e-coli was being introduced by a Shkreli.
And here's an article that backs your assertion:
http://www.naturalnews.com/052405_Chipotle_ecoli_outbreak_corporate_sabo...
"The CDC has already admitted that some of these e.coli outbreaks involve a "rare genetic strain" of e.coli not normally seen in foods."
"...what's really happening at Chipotle is that biotech industry shills are deliberately contaminating Chipotle's food with strains of e.coli in a malicious attempt to destroy both the reputation and finances of the Chipotle food chain. This act of bioterrorism is entirely consistent with the known behavior patterns of the biotech industry which, for example, engaged in illegal money laundering in Washington state in order to destroy the GMO labeling bill there."
Will the talks include topics such as Explosive Diarrhea?
bwhahaha ... i luv poop jokes.
Classic ZH headline. And I guarantee whoever did that ecoli graph busted a gut laughing.
Better busting a gut than bursting a colon.
Ah, another fine Colorado company, right up there with Qwest. Burn, baby! Burn!
it's the new Scarsdale diet! eat all you want and lose weight!
Chipotle can reduce its food integrity issues by bringing a robust economy back to America where jobs are quality jobs and not "Cannot afford to call in sick because all I have is a crappy food service job that 100 million other desperate Americans are competing for".
Oh snap! Chipotle just threw up on Obama's SOTU.
Bet they hired crisis mgmt. consultants to be all PC
Mexican food made Montezuma's Revenge famous.
Whiners just can't appreciate "muy auténtico" should stick to Mickey D's.
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