There were two interesting articles about Chipotle last week: MMA announcer Jimmy Smith says he found ‘full-sized staples’ in Chipotle burrito Chipotle’s stock is having its best quarter ever—here’s how to play it Chipotle’s stock is getting back up to where it was before their food safety issues in 2015 and 2016. It has been …
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A Passion for Restaurant Operations
Islam Ahmed shares his experience in the restaurant industry and his passion for running great operations. He discusses his time with Chipotle and what he believes has contributed to their recent struggles. Tommy gets a little bit of a different perspective from a less seasoned restaurant industry evangelist. Check out the podcast below:
My Non-Scientific Prediction that Chipotle’s Sales are Still Down
The title says it all in this blog post, this prediction, some could say a safe one, is based on nothing but my experience last week. I live in Denver and happened to be grabbing lunch on Evans Ave over by my alma mater the University of Denver. There on Evans Ave is a shrine to …
Feds Subpoena Chipotle’s Documentation
The Denver-based chain was served with another subpoena on Jan. 28 by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California requiring Chipotle to produce documents and information about the company’s practices at all restaurants system wide. click here to read full article I don’t think you have to be a legal genius to see …
Food Safety Concerns Among Consumers Increase
Just this week I came across the above graphic and an article out of QSR Mazazine citing a national study that showed 74% of consumers expect better food safety. The same study also found “that while a slight majority (53 percent) of U.S. consumers say that their level of concern about food safety has stayed …
Chipotle’s Woes Could Happen to Any of Us
A couple of years ago I met with a Chipotle Director to show him the Inspector app of that time. My hope going into the meeting was that he would have been so blown away that he would have walked us into the VP of Ops office. He didn’t, full disclaimer, he wasn’t officially speaking …
Tough Year for Chipotle
It’s been a tough year for Chipotle. From pork supplier issues to a salmonella outbreak in Minnesota, a norovirus issue in California, and now the latest e coli outbreak in the pacific northwest closing some 43 locations. Now you can’t blame all of these issues on Chipotle. The pork supplier was a case of Chipotle …
US Pig Farmers Question Chipotle
I don’t anything about this “feud”, but found this blog from the Minnesota Pork Producer Council President on Minnesota Farm Living website very interesting. A while back we posted about Chipotle cutting off their pork vendors for not meeting their guidelines. This cost them revenue in some of their locations as they didn’t have enough …