Chipotle will close February 8 for companywide meeting on food safety

Mark February 8 on your calendars because you’ll have to find somewhere else to get your burrito that day.

On February 8, Chipotle will close its doors for a meeting with all its employees to further discuss safe food handling. The company’s value doubled in the past five years, its stock topping $750 in 2015.

“We want to thank our teams for all of their hard work, to discuss some of the changes we are making to enhance food safety, to talk about the restaurant’s role in all of that and to answer questions from employees”, he said.

The CDC has not yet pinpointed a cause for the contagions, though Chipotle plans on unveiling a marketing campaign next month to win customers back into the fold of their tortillas.

The company executives on Wednesday said that they are confident that the new rules and steps that are being taken at the popular Mexican restaurant chains will deter any food-borne illness outbreaks in the future.

Seattle-based lawyer Bill Marler told the Chicago Tribune that he represents 75 people filing lawsuits over the safety of their food.

Chipotle founder and co-Chief Executive Steve Ells said at the ICR Conference in Orlando, Florida, we “need to reassure our customers that this can’t happen again, and that we are going to reduce the risk of this kind of an outbreak from occurring again to near zero”, Reuters reported. The popular food chain is facing a PR nightmare after an E.coli outbreak forced several locations to shut down and a norovirus outbreak in Boston infected up to 141 people. As of December 18, there were 53 reported cases in nine different states, including New York, Washington and Ohio.