Comments on: Chipotle’s Three Strikes

By: VeggieTart

VeggieTart — Tue, 28 Jul 2009 12:54:06 +0000

Chipotle is trying. And it is one of the few QSRs where you can get a decent vegan meal–heck, they seem to know the meaning of the word vegan.

Erin: It’s so irritating to be told to just have a salad. When I go to places where a salad is the only veg option, it’s usually a plate of iceberg lettuce and some limp veggies–feh! Last time I was at Ruby Tuesdays, it was a tiny set-up with a minefield of non-vegan items.

By: AP

AP — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:45:19 +0000

You can get really healthful bowls and salads there, which isn’t mentioned in this poorly presented blog entry. Not your usual good work, Luke!

By: jill

jill — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 04:33:42 +0000

back off about the cals in the burrito… it takes me 2 sittings to get a bowl down and according to your “1,110″ cals in a chix one, i’m doing just fine between the two meals

By: krissy

krissy — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 17:46:04 +0000

Yeah when McDonalds came up with Chipotle, they were already well known as crappy food. So they tried to market the alternative they made look so good just by virtue of it being better than McDonalds. Now we find out its the eqivalent of a quarter pounder or more… They are lazy and greedy.

By: Dani

Dani — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 16:42:07 +0000

They have terrific vegan burritos: black beans, cilantro lime rice, onions and peppers, salsa, lots of guacamole, and lettuce. Yum.

And Zeca, would you please not rate the relative importance of animal welfare and human welfare policies? It’s annoying.

By: Robert

Robert — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 08:53:25 +0000

Just to clarify the letter to Chipotle which you reference was not written by the Coalition of Immokalee Workers but rather in support of them. The letter is actually from prominent sustainable food activists including none other than…wait for it…Food, Inc’s director Robert Kenner and co-producer Eric Schlosser! no joke

By: zeca

zeca — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:39:36 +0000

“At least they try to do good.”

Really?

Chipotle has had over 3 years to “do good” by the farmworkers who pick its tomatoes, where “doing good” would be very simple and cost them very little but contribute to improving the lives of many people. Apparently, chickens and pigs are more important to Chipotle than human beings.

By: erin raw foods

erin raw foods — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 02:23:15 +0000

I have a Chipolte here in my own town and have never set foot in the place (and always suggest to people to avoid chains… If you want to support LOCAL restaurants that might use LOCAL foods and LOCALLY owned) then don’t do chains.

I will say though that at least Chipolte is trying (which is more than I can say about most chain restaurants)

But it sounds like they need to try a lot harder. Thanks for the info on this Luke. Much appreciated..

And Dani, I think it’s great you’re a fellow vegetarian but is that really one of the only places? I live in a town full of chain restaurants and have never even heard that place suggested for vegetarians. I would think Ruby Tuesdays (huge salad bar) or some local owned place that will make up some yummy veg dishes (most will) would be a better choice.

Peace

Erin

By: Dani

Dani — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:38:24 +0000

Chipotle is one of the only restaurants I can go as a vegetarian with my non-veg friends. They have great veg options. At least they try to do good; leave them alone!

By: Adriana

Adriana — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:36:27 +0000

Chipotle has done a whole lot more than any other [non-veg] chain restaurant to improve animal welfare. They source all their pork and now their chicken from the most humane sources available to them and are the ONLY CHAIN RESTAURANT to do so. Why are you picking on them instead of on Rubio’s (no welfare policies), La Salsa (no welfare policies), Green Burrito (no welfare policies), El Pollo Loco (no welfare policies), etc? Burger King has made some welfare improvements, but nothing like Chipotle.