shit. im over a decade older than that group and my wife and I have had to cut out all outside food for over a year.
maybe it has something to do with ripping people off on takeout orders
I thought I was CRAZY. I tried the $5 burrito hack on a take out order and was mildly unimpressed. It’s ok in a pinch but for 50 cents more I’ll get way more food at McDonald’s. My wife went in and ordered it on a different day and they gave her SIGNIFICANTLY more food. Like double. In that scenario it’s definitely worth it.
hearing people say “get way more food for $5.50 (total) at McDonald’s” is wild
in Canada, a jr chicken (mchicken equivalent? it’s been a while) is $4. used to be a good value. not anymore
And their food is mostly rice and beans.
But it’s such delicious (and overpriced) rice & beans.
Usually these headlines are bs, but the stock price dropping by 50%, or several years’ growth? Yikes.
I mean, still not really cratering but it’s a big drop. Nothing they can’t recover from.
I love Chipotle. Maybe it’s just the locations near me, but the quality is good and prices are not as high as some others in the thread say; certainly not $20. Maybe $11 or $12, and for a really big meal.
Unfortunately I stopped eating there when I stopped shopping at Target, when they got rid of their DEI policies in clear capitulation to MAGA. Plenty of places with comparable quality & price that at least try not to do hiring discrimination
Any info on this? I can’t find anything about Chipotle removing any DEI stuff.
Oof media didn’t talk about DEI. I’m not going to chipotle anymore
The food poisoning probably didnt’ help
Food poisoning, exorbitant prices, what’s not to love?
/s
They could try not making as much per customer to increase the number of customers. This though would mean they were not gouging enough money per sale. A loop for which they can not get past.
It’s funny how companies just don’t get it.
Fast food has been historically cheap. Chipotle worked because it was fast, it was cheap, and you didn’t feel like you were as much of a fat ass compared to grabbing a giant bacon burger and a bucket of fries.
Now you go to chipotle and pay $20 for a burrito and a soda. Still fast, still decent enough (at least the one near me), but $20 is highway robbery.
OR, I can go across the street to a sit down restaurant, have a first generation Thai guy (who started his American dream restaurant) whip up the best damn drunken noodles I’ve ever had for $12. AND he does this FASTER than chipotle (seriously how does he do it? Must be a magic wok).
Guess where we grab lunch these days.
We pre-cook as much as we can in Asian restaurants. The wok isn’t magic, the chicken/beef/pork is already 75% cooked.
and it almost always tastes fucking great, unlike fast food nowadays
My issue with chipotle has always been that the food is lukewarm.
I’m not paying 20 dollars for a lukewarm, lightly seasoned burrito.
And whoever rolls those burritos hears “roll” and thinks "roll of bread"and doesn’t understand that a burrito is supposed to be long.
It’s the same problem as burger makers making their burgers TALL. Like bro, that’s the wrong shape for the format of fitting in my mouth.
Say no to chode burritos.
I hate this so much. Like they roll it, wrap it, then make it into a football shape. I laughed so hard the last time I got a burrito from there. It tried to mush it back into an appropriate shape but eventually I gave up and put the innards on a plate
A longer cylindrical burrito means that they didn’t put the maximum amount of filling inside.
The more stuff you put in, the rounder the burrito has to be. That’s why you couldn’t reshape it to be a cylinder.
Next time get a fork and eat about a third of the filling, then you’ll be able to rewrap it.
I think the ideal hand burrito from an aesthetic perspective is around 3x long as diameter.
Now you go to chipotle and pay $20 for a burrito and a soda. Still fast, still decent enough (at least the one near me), but $20 is highway robbery.
Chipotle Burrito and a small fountain soda is $14 in my area. Its certainly risen in price over the last 6 years.
Sometimes I’m just out with coworkers but not starving. I used to get a cheese and chicken quesadilla. It used to cost $4 and change. Then they started charging burrito prices - $15 and change for a tortilla, a handful of shredded cheese and 1/4 of a chicken breast. I get there is regional pricing differences - but their costs (at least here) are out of control.
I remember when Chipotle was still a Colorado-only thing. Better than Subway or Quiznos and the price was right. You could get in, get lunch, and get out relatively quickly.
I don’t know that things went pear-shaped the very instant they started their massive expansion everywhere, but it’s been different for quite a long time. Like a lot of brands, I’m sure they sputtered along on their reputation mostly and the place made money even if consumers started to get disillusioned.
Used to be that Qdoba and Chipotle seemed to be pretty decent options, but I’m always kind of disappointed in both these days. Qdoba offered Impossible Meat as an option for a while, but seemingly no longer does…
Better than Subway or Quiznos and the price was right.
Yes I literally remember when a meatless chipotle bowl was only $6.45.
I’m pretty sure I haven’t eaten there since those good old days.
I think it’s just a classic case of profit maximization. Chipotle felt pressure from shareholders to continue increasing profit every quarter, and that inherently involves cutting costs and increasing prices
Yeah, it’s pretty annoying - publicly traded companies must constantly be growing. Something like a restaurant cannot just be successful in making a mere profit, oh no, it has to be compared to last quarter/last year…even if it means endangering everything that made the restaurant successful in the first place…
When was Qdoba ever a decent option? Their best has always been “disappointing” for me.
I am not being snarky, I just don’t ever remember them being good.
As for Chipotle, I don’t go there very often but even the last time I was in and saw chicken going on the grill and they said fresh avocados are used every morning to make the guacamole, that was how I remembered them. And how I always figured the differentiation was: Chipotle made their food, but Qdoba was just put together Sisco truck food.
When I first started going (maybe late 90s, early 00s) they had more salsa options, which I was keen on.
IIRC, their hottest was at least hotter than Chipotle, even if neither really dialed up the spice all that much.
Qdoba was pretty good in the early to mid 00’s.
Yup. And in more recent times, they had Impossible Meat options for a while. Then they stopped. Now, as a vegetarian, I feel like I’m getting ripped off, especially if I place an online order…quite a lot for essentially rice and beans.
I ate at Qdoba once. It made my butt explode.
Quiznos had the same effect.
I eventually learned how to eat clean, now my digestive system has been calm & happy for years. My rule of thumb is no restaurants. Ever. Control every ingredient that goes into my mouth.
Haha. Yeah, if you have a sensitive system, it’s hard to have much control over anything if you eat at a restaurant.
Chipotle is on it’s way out. When they first opened, at least by my work, the food was fresh and decent and could be had for a little more than fast food but not by a lot so it was easy to go there. I wouldn’t say it’s Mexican or TexMex but it wasn’t bad. Changed jobs and hadn’t been there in a while but I was on a road trip and thought what they heck, there aren’t too many options and this seemed like it would be good. The food was not fresh the meat was over cooked, you didn’t get a lot of food and it was kind of over priced… I haven’t been back since.
If I want cheap food, Chipotle is out. If I want good food Chipotle is out. Maybe if I hate myself and want to spend a lot of money for shitty food?
I think people are also just waking up to the idea that they’re moving to beans and rice just to survive anyway, so why go out for the same shit with lime juice squirted on it?
Nah, the food just really sucks. Used to be good, isn’t anymore. It’s not that they can’t afford it, it’s that if you’re going out for cheap food once in a while, Chipotle is somehow worse than what you can make at home, for more money.
I love the taste of supply chain optimization.
I remember when Reddit was flooded with posts about how great Chipotle was. Felt a little manufactured; their food was fine, but nothing better than I can get from a halfway decent local place.
Before McDonald’s got their grubby mitts on them, I loved Chipotle. I know they’re out from under that thumb now, but the damage is done, and they’re not coming back.
Pretty sure they were a subsidiary from the get-go.
That would have been in the mid-'90s. I’d assume it was basically like an entirely different restaurant back then
Yup.
Maybe robots and AI can buy your food. 😐
Fuck all this capitalist bullshit. Bring about a basic income for all. No one should have to be forced into violence just to feed themselves or their family. A whole shitload of social problems would disappear if basic income were enacted.
Their food has gone downhill and also they changed the chips recently which now suck. That’s the only reason I still went, the chips. Rip.
