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#Chipotle goes under after last willing customer cratered pants after eating Chipotle
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?
they were on downward spiral once they started charging more and shrinkflationed thier product.
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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.
What is this hack? My Chipotle hack is to order a burrito bowl with all the free extra toppings, get two tortillas on the side, and you can portion out the bowl into about two regular sized Chipotle burritos.
It’s the same but you order a taco instead of the burrito bowl. All the free toppings you get them on the side.
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
I remember when the McChicken was a buck.
Same
Don’t forget all the other restaurants that are screwing us blue.
Taco Bell adheres to the 12.72% year over year inflation rate because why not?
Two mcchickens or a mcchicken and McDouble are only $5 in most areas.
One regular mcchicken on its own is like 3.79 (California, but I travel a lot and it’s sorta consistent).
Portland metro area a mcchicken is $4.20
They have the audacity to still have it in the “McValue” section
Here in AZ a sausage mcmuffin with egg is 6.99 before tax
Thats crazy, I can get 2 sausage egg n cheese mcmuffins for $4.50 after tax and this is NJ (were not cheap).
The closest Chipotle to me is 45 minutes away and has a < 3 star rating - i think I’ll go literally anywhere else and be content.
I just go to Cava instead these days. Way better
CAVA is doing the exact same business strategy as Chipotle. They’re working on rapid expansion, but once they either reach market saturation, or stall out, they’ll reduce quality and increase prices
It’s the model for every fast-casual chain. I really wish people would support local restaurants more. You get better food at a cheaper price when you don’t have corporate taking a 30% profit margin
I go mostly to local restaurants, but sometimes I’m in the mood for Cava. And yeah I’m waiting for them to drop in quality and/or portion size
You get better food at a cheaper price when you don’t have corporate taking a 30% profit margin
No we don’t.
This is the way. I buy a CAVA bowl once a week. The way I have it made will feed me three times. That’s three dinners for less than $14.
Lol same. I get a Cava bowl and will pick at it for like two days straight.
I’m just waiting for the time I go in and find out that they’ve all been told to make the bowls smaller to save money. Only a matter of time.
Cava is so expensive though, I think it’s like $4-5 more than a burrito bowl by me.
Yeah but I get like 3 meals out of it so it’s worth it to me
I could get two out of cava, but I can also get two meals out of Chipotle so a bit of a wash from my perspective.
wait, people were able to afford it before? never went becuase it was overpriced.
it was 7$, then it start shrinkflaitoning, and jump 2+$ everytime like in the past 5 years. it was quite cheap for the amount “burrito you are getting”, now its not worth it.
Used to be able to feed my partner and I for less than $20 easily and have leftovers.
Now it’s damn near $30
thats still crazy, i don’t eat out much just on price alone but also most places i find the food too much.
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.
also the shrinkflation too.
So that means Chipotle will lead by example and start paying all their employees a livable wage, right? … Right??
higher wages are not the solution; universal basic income is. higher wages just mean it’s even more difficult for companies to higher employees, which means there will be fewer jobs overall. also, you’re excluding people who are unable to work that way.
If you think inflation is bad now, wait until the government starts handing out free money. I’m no economist, but some of y’all are dumb as hell.
The government hands out free money all the time to people taking us for a ride.
Welfare queens aside, Americans don’t know true horror yet. Wait until food gets scarce and your priorities will shift faster than a naked twelve year old running through a GOP bath house.
I think you mistakenly posted this instead of your usual conversation with the mirror.
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Inflation depends on the resource people are chasing after and the timeline of the cash infusion. Most resources can be provisioned at greater quantity without price increases if given enough time (years to decades). If everyone poof had double their normal income, and immediately tried to spend it all, there would be supply chain constraints and inflation, sure. Any UI scheme would need to have a gradual rollout to avoid that.
inflation is kinda irrelevant. what matters is people’s real buying power, and that would increase.
Overall job loss is not what happened the last thirty-odd times the federal minimum wage was raised, or any of the times individual states raised minimum wage, but go ahead and believe it will happen the next time for sure.
What has happened is the newly higher-paid employees spend that money, and the new demand creates new jobs, enough to offset the losses from the old employers deciding to manage with a smaller staff. As long as the size of the increase is in the same range as all the previous ones, there’s every reason to believe the effect would be the same.
I wish the federal congress would just do several years of catch-up increases, then tie it to inflation so we can stop arguing about it.
I’m all for higher employees!
*hire
They do tend to mess up my order, but they are at least super chill and nice when I kindly ask them to fix it.
Higher wages also just translates to higher rent for their landlords.
Shame poor people can’t connect these dots, but that’s why we are where we are.
that’s just factually not true. i’ll explain it slowly so you can follow:
rent is determined by two things: cost of construction and profit of the landlord.
cost of construction is more or less constant and wouldn’t change if people have more money to spend. profit of the landlord is subject to the free market, i.e. if renting out apartments becomes overly attractive (as in, landlords make more money with it), then new people will enter the market to also become landlords and rent out apartments. since these landlords are all competing against each other, they try to be more attractive to potential customers by lowering their rent, which means lowering their own profit. that’s how the free market works.
The way it actually works is that all the landlords outsource their paperwork to a rental management company like RealPage, which then algorithmically fix prices to be as high as possible.
as high as possible
as high as possible without losing customers to competing landlords
There are homeless people. They’ve already priced out millions of people. They don’t give a shit about “losing customers”. RealPage is the default service in the US, meaning everyone’s rent in each city is in the same ballpark and gets the same rent increase every year.
They’ve already priced out millions of people.
yeah because construction costs alone are higher than these people can pay in rent.
Not everywhere. Shockingly to many, cities with higher rates of apartment construction have falling rents.
https://www.redfin.com/news/rental-tracker-may-2025/
“Apartment construction in America has been hovering near a 50-year high, and even though renter demand is strong, it’s not keeping pace with supply,” said Redfin Senior Economist Sheharyar Bokhari. “Many units are sitting vacant for months, which means renters have power to negotiate concessions and landlords have less leeway to keep rents high.”
Yeah, you’re an actual idiot.
Keep being taken advantage of accordingly.
Idk why it got so popular. Plenty of better Mexican options and you don’t have to pay for chips or get e.coli.
The ecoli is the best part.
Is like a free game of Russian roulette.
It’s a free weight-loss plan, unplanned.
Plenty of better Mexican options
It’s not even recognizably Mexican. At best, it’s vaguely Mexican-themed. Some of the ingredients are there (including the occasional e. coli), but none of the flavor. “Fresh Mex” is a brain-dead corporate abomination.
To be fair, I like to go to a Mexican place that serves me something off menu because it is the Chef’s home town food. They had never seen a burrito in their life until they moved to the US.
Mexico is a big place, lots of variety depending on where you live.
If I still lived near one (and also had money) I’d probably go to them still.
Maybe I’d eat there if they sold food.
And if it was cheaper. Real texmex costs less
Hell real proper Mexican food costs less. Literally went to a Mexican restaurant last week and it was $17 for a fuck ton of food. And that includes a drink, chips, salsa and guacamole on top of the 2 meals worth of food.
Middle age people with jobs also can’t afford Chipotle in the PedoEconomy.
at least one is mostly frequented by upper middle class tech workers, near a conference center, so that made sense.
The food is meh. The prices are high. Young people are broke. What do you expect?
Chipotle has been shit ever since their data breach years ago. Fuck 'em.
I live twenty minutes from a Qdoba and they have yet to fuck up my order or skimp on toppings.
Fuck, the chipotle skimping was such a load of bullshit.
Glad I don’t go there, or any restaurant, any more.
It wasn’t the multiple ecoli scares?
Do you boycott every company thats had a breach?
Only after they fuck up my order nearly half a dozen times with a drastic reduction in quality AND quantity.
Yes.
Yes I do.
Ah I gotcha, fair enough!
The Qdoba near me is garbage at folding burritos, and I’ve rarely seen anyone else in there. I wonder if it’s a money laundering front. Still better than Chipotle 😅
garbage at folding burritos
Please enjoy your fancy taco, sir.
More of an ill formed sphereoid than a taco.
Man, I am crushed by how badly my local Qdoba prepares their proteins. It’s not like that at other Qdobas.
