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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Vomit Schomit
Laughing my fng ass off!
Jack in the Box had the same thing on the West Coast in the 80's. I lost 5 pounds one weekend...
Yep, never forgot and never go near one.
There was a golden era of JITB before that, though. JITB went thru an LBO and turned to shit. But their Fish Supreme still gives me goosebumps thinking about it, 30 years since its demise.
White people can't mass-produce Mexican food. Mexican food is meant to be made by Mexicans in fairly small, family-owned venue where the preparers give a shit, uh I mean, give a rat's ass ... uhm, care about what they are kicking out.
White boys with flood-length pants and gauged ears (and has there ever been a more repulsive fashion move than that)? are not truly hepcats by eating at CMG. The real hipsters go where the Mexicans go for food. And that is not CMG.
Some of the best are Mexican food trucks that set up near county prisons that serve the regular visitors that know what real Mexican food is.
Luv to see a final-scene-of-robocop done on MON.
I'm reposting "Pakleds" post
Wake the F up people. Big AGRA and GMOs are a multi-trillion dollar industry.
In other nations these companies have been kicked out after poisoning and destroying the food supply of millions.
Why do lawmakers in the US and Americas allow this?
Simple, they are short sighted, greedy, amoral, blackmailed and clinically insane.
Chipolte should check the background of board members and get a PI to investigate distributors.
That e-coli that they found was LAB GROWN, it doesn't occur naturally.
Simple as that, as the song goes . . . SABATOGE
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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.
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horse shit...but comical read thanks
you forgot the most important thing...
they are share holders
same as the prison industry in America
Shareholders whom I'm sure spend thousands a month on Non-GMO food.
I'm sure the problem lies with its the employees, and lax management oversight of them. Ever seen some of the freaks working at Chipotle? Many Americans hygiene and sanitary/health habits are as bad as those of the poorest and dumbest Central American or Chinese peasants, but spoiled Americans would all be too insulted to have low-wage/low-education Americans undergo the training and military-like discipline needed to actually handle food safely. Chipotle probably didn't realize this point, wouldn't have had the cultural willpower, nor would they have been willing to spend the money to fix it.
Besides, having people who look like crack addicts handling your food is a hipster attraction.
Maybe Taco Bell can buy them and call their burrito salmonella-Bell-Grande.
Surprised the lawyers aren't eating the company alive with lawsuits.
I've never eaten there. Something about chain food turns me off to most outlets. But now I know I never will.
We diarrheaed some folks...
As bad as the food is at these box stores, imagine China. They have zero not corrupted oversight of food.
Mmm, scorpion on a stick...
I kept waiting to read the obvious line but no go, so I will bravely step up here:
" We schlonged some burritos."
chiptoleaway bloodstain removing lessons..
white MBAs are not meant to run mexican joints; was in sonoma on wine trip (i know, don't blame me, wife idea and it got me laid a lot so was worth it, partial to bourbon here but digress). anyway, tongue was an option. didn't get that but the extremely obese grouchy and not clean mexican woman behind the counter made the best steak burrito i've ever had by a very wide margin. best meal i had the entire week by far. chipotle is for white people who want 'mex' but without flavor, sort of like the cars they drive, their houses, their jobs, their wives, their etc. tried chipotle was so bland i never went back;
I have found the stores extremely safe to eat in, in CO. California I could totally understand due to uneducated work force, and many illegals.
Eat at a Chipotle run with some whites behind the counter and all will be well. I do think that part of the noise is that they went non-GMO.
I used to like Chipottle, until I ordered a small bag of chips for $1.05, and found only 7 chips in the tiny bag. Thats 15 cents per chip.
TO the moron who ate there "once" and made a decision on a multi billion dollar company is pretty lame. Just like a perfect experience on the first visit is just as stupid to form an opinion on a restaurant a decade or more in age.
What every food store in America needs is a bathroom which actually puts out warm or hot water, soap and paper towels. I think in all the years I've been on this planet I've been to one restaurant which actually put out warm water. Just think how many prep cooks, food handlers and chefs took a dump, reached for the handle of the door (absent a paper towel barrier) and when in to grab your filet to grill, or put a tomato, onion and lettuce on your burger.
^^^^ that's the biggest source of spreading disease. It can, and does, happen a lot, but Chipotle is a large chain so the effects multiply. For fast food you can drop the conditions of the washroom 99%.
If Scooby owned CMG he'd make all of his employees say "Welcome to Scooby's!" when they came in the store.
If they just tell their employees to stop crapping on the lettuce farms on their way across our borders we'd have less e. coli problems
Wash your hands after anal sex
And um, other parts! :>D
Interesting article, especially pointing out the stock buy back angle.
As pointed out on Zero Hedge, and some other places, stock buy backs drive up the price of the stock--in the short term. But stock buybacks should be considered as a contrarian indicator. When the stock buy backs end, the stock price goes back down.
This short term increase in Chipoltle's stock price seems almost like a trap to lure investors to buy.
Currently, Chipotle's stock price is at $475.57 a share. My prediction: Chipotle will fall below $430 a share in the next 6 months.
Buybacks and M&A always call the top, not the bottom, because they reveal a lack of organic growth opportunities.
That Company and others like it treat their employees like shit.Kinda like how California farmers used to treat Mexicans in the fields with no portable toilet facilities or rest place for lunch.They didn't give a fuck until people started dying because shit was on the vegetables being eaten.These fast food joints are all the same.When you eat there you take the chance of someone having mental problems,holding a long lasting hate or grudge or not giving a shit about human waste on his fingers and hands.Serving food after having diarrhea.You take the chance because you know how these people are treated.That's American Corporations using people as modern day slaves in order to make millions and park the money offshore.
bravo