Chipotle To Close Its Doors Nationwide Next Month For Your Own Safety
While the closure will involve all Chipotle franchises, it won’t require every restaurant to close its doors for the entire day.
Chipotle said the meeting would provide an opportunity to thank employees, discuss changes and answer questions.
The crisis began last summer, when health authorities in Seattle linked a handful of illnesses to a company store in the city and nearly 100 people fell ill after eating at a restaurant in California.
The meeting comes months after an E. coli outbreak that sickened 52 people and a norovirus outbreak that sickened about 140 people at a single Chipotle restaurant in Boston, according to the company.
Has anyone alerted Cyn Santana about this crisis? They also said they think the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will call an end to the outbreak soon. Customers have sued Chipotle and the company was recently served with a subpoena by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations. Online. “We know that Chipotle is as safe as it’s ever been before”.
MIAMI, FL – APRIL 27: Chipotle restaurant workers fill orders for customers on the day that the company announced it will only use non-GMO ingredients in its food on April 27, 2015 in Miami, Florida.
Chipotle shares declined 30 percent in December, the restaurant said in a filing last week.
Chipotle will begin efforts to woo back customers next month with stepped-up advertising and direct outreach to its most loyal customers. The company’s Chief Financial Officer Jack Hartung noted the company’s recovery would be “messy”, with investments in food safety and marketing eating into profit margins – already hurting from plunging stock prices.
The rise and fall of Chipotle has been one marked by E. coli outbreaks, declining stock and bad press. The company’s quarterly revenue was up 12.2% compared to the same quarter previous year. At the time of the CDC’s last update, those cases were not considered part of the other E. coli O26 outbreak but could eventually get lumped in to one, two-strain outbreak.