Chipotle closed for lunch due to food safety meeting

CEO Steve Ells also revealed the Chipotle Local Grower Support Initiative, a program that supports local food producers and helps ensure they also meet food-safety standards.

The Denver-based chain suffered a blight on its reputation and a sales downturn after food-borne illnesses sickened about 500 customers in 13 different states.

Chipotle offered free food as a sort of “thank you for your patience” to customers.

The restaurant’s stock is trading significantly lower than its record high a year ago, and the company is facing a federal criminal investigation. “I went elsewhere”, customer Trevor Mars said about Chipotle after the food issues.

When Levine replied to the first text with a question mark, he said the customer responded, “I want my burrito”, clearly unaware of the mix-up.

Now that Chipotle’s E. coli outbreak officially over, the company is temporarily closing all its restaurants in order to keep it that way.

The fast food chain closed all of its locations nationwide for a four-hour food safety meeting for all 50,000 of its employees.

That was the main takeaway today following Chipotle’s nationwide closure for an all-company meeting.

Around 1 p.m. Monday afternoon, the Chipotle Mexican Restaurant’s parking lot in south Rochester was empty.

“I steered clear, to be honest with you”. However, Chipotle said it still doesn’t know what caused the outbreak.

One Maryland man found out what it’s like to stand between a Chipotle customer and a free burrito.

With the new system, the chain will allot five paid sick days to employees who are ill, especially those who exhibit symptoms such as nausea, explosive diarrhea, vomiting and other similar symptoms, reports Gizmodo.

In Monday’s safety meeting with employees, the company announced its spending $10 million so local farmers can meet the company’s new safety procedures. Now, it has to be seen how long Chipotle takes to bounce back.