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>get buy 1 get one free coupon for chipotle
>it cant be as bad as i remember, right?
>drive up, line out the door of white soccer moms (dohh jezus)
>order a barbacoa burrito and a chicken burrito
>putting not only lettuce in the burrito, but huge leafs parts of lettuce, what the fuck?
>say that their hottest sauce is medium, what the fuck?
>eat half of the chicken one
>chicken has no flavor, white cilantro rice as no flavor, the only flavor comes from the sauce which is meh at best
>barbacoa has to have flavor right? its slow cooked and spiced
>brown rice has no flavor, only flavor comes from sauce
>huge pieces of lettuce detract from eating experience
>say they dont have carnitas because "they could prove it was organic"

How the fuck is this fucking shithole so popular? jesus fucking christ i will never go back here

>> No.6712965

>eating at the meme restaurant

>> No.6712969

>>6712960
you probably live in kansas

chipotle in bay area is really well seasoned

>> No.6712971

>>6712969
im smack dab in the bay area.
you actually think this is seasoned? top lel whitey

>> No.6712976

>>6712960
It's popular for the same reason that places like Taco Bell. McDonalds, Chilis, Applebees, Red Lobster etc. are all popular:

Most people have terrible taste and just don't know any better.

>> No.6712982

>>6712971
huh well I pour half a bottle of tapatio on it before I start eating so i never noticed

>> No.6712983
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>>6712976

>> No.6712987

>>6712969
>>6712982
I hope you don't pour tapatio on the burritos you get from taquerias in the bay

>> No.6712991

>>6712983
That's a pretty sweet pipe.

>> No.6712993

>>6712987
who do you think I am

>> No.6712999

>>6712983
Shut up nerd

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6713002

Once you go to flavortown there ain't no coming back..

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>>6712969
>>6712971
>>6712987
who /orangesauce/ here???

>> No.6713011

>>6713008
thank you based la vics

their burritos arent the best but they are fucking huge.

the best burrito IMO is at el rancho supermercado in castro valley at their little taqueria inside. seriously you should try that place if you're nearby

>> No.6713035

>>6713011
I went there last week lol

>> No.6713039

>>6713035
tell me it isnt the best burrito in the bay area

>> No.6713054

>>6713039
idk man I've had some pretty amazing burritos in the mission

>> No.6713081

ITT: OBEASE AMERICANS

>> No.6713084

>>6713054
>>6713054
taqueria cancun is damn good

>> No.6713087

>>6713081
You should really learn to spell if you want your obnoxious all caps insults to be taken seriously.

>> No.6713132

>>6713054
man i don't know if i've just been going to the wrong places, but i never really got what the big deal was with mission burritos. they were decent, but didn't blow me away. what mission restaurants have you been to?

>> No.6713141

>Chipotle is not fast food
>It's fast casual, this short incomplete Wikipedia article says so https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fast_casual_restaurant

Everyone who raves about this place.

Chipotle is good, but it's not that awesome if you have a car and can drive beyond 5 minutes from your home. A lot of the hype has to do with the novelty of it and their effective marketing (shit, mention Chipotle on social media sites or reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/changemyview/comments/3eftjs/cmv_taco_bell_is_by_far_the_best_fast_food_choice/ctek2l4 and their own customers will start repeating the marketing to you).

I like Chipotle a lot. Don't get me wrong. I eat it on occasion and I always get the biggest goddamn burrito you can get. I'm a pretty small dude so I pretty much voluntarily rape myself with the burrito. But I'm not sheltered enough to think there aren't better options for burritos (that are cheaper and just as convenient).

>> No.6713142

>>6713087

Or he's not that serious. No one who types in all caps like that is trying to be completely serious. It's hardly insulting after the billionth time.

>> No.6713147

>>6712983

No one is going to start calling people "fedoras" for not liking fast food. Good luck trying to make that a meme.

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>>6713011


They opened a HotHead burritos here the other day and it's pretty damn solid. You can get bigass burritos there too.

I'm not saying they're not on the same class as Chipotle though.

>> No.6713164

>>6713084
have you ever been to off the grid? I once had a peruvian burrito with frenchfry-like things in it that was in my top 10 burritos I've ever had

>> No.6713190

>>6713141
This. The only reason to go to chipotle really is

a) The only other place to grab a burrito in your immediate vicinity is a taco bell. If you have a local burrito/taco shop in your town, it's likely better than Chipotle at the same price or cheaper.

b) You really buy into their whole organic/non-gmo rhetoric.

I love chipotle too, but it's hard to justify going there when there are literally five other local restaurants within a quarter mile that have better burritos.

>> No.6713224

I never understood what was so hard about looking up a place and going there.

I worked prep for about 8 months and even the employees seemed to like it. It felt kinda culty. Then again, their training for the first few weeks consist of:

"What does it mean to be motivated/What does it mean to be a restauranteur/etc"
You: Give the most obvious answer
Them: "Nope! Read what it says in the training book"

They seemed to not want to criticize their very place they worked at....

>> No.6713229

>>6713190
People who don't really think much about what they eat fall into 'a' and most who rave about Chipotle probably fall into 'b'.

Both types of people really bother me, because food marketing is huge and easy to impress them. I don't like it when people end up with some hive mind mentality about a business like that when it's completely based on marketing with little to no research whatsoever.

>> No.6713235

>>6713224
>"What does it mean to be motivated/What does it mean to be a restauranteur/etc"
>You: Give the most obvious answer
>Them: "Nope! Read what it says in the training book"

So your training consisted of this, and your pay wage was about that of your average fast food employee, and you worked "prep", but you stayed there for 8 months? Damn, I would've left pretty quickly.

>> No.6713364

>>6712960
I don't care about it being a meme, it's fucking delicious food if you load it up with everything they have. Orgasmic.

>> No.6713367

>>6713364
>orgasmic

Grow taste buds.

>> No.6713372

>>6712960
I like Chipotle but it's not worth the hype it gets. I'd rather just go to a real Mexican restaurant and get a to-go burrito. Lengua if possible. Though I understand that's not an option for everyone.

>> No.6713397

Why do people still think they butcher the cow in their basement and grow their produce in the parking lot? I've heard someone tell me that they squeeze the lime into the rice themselves. They just come in these jugs of lime/citrus juice.

You know what a ReTherm is? A brand that makes these square tanks of water that you heat up and cook shit in. Taco Bell uses this.

Chipotle uses this too. Their beans, your sofritas, and the carnitas cook in there. I believe only the beef is actually cooked on their grill.


It's one thing to believe it's ethical, it's another to go there just because of that. Buying burritos is not political activism and it doesn't stop other companies from doing this.

It's another thing for people to go around and say they most insane stuff about the quality of their food. They don't realize that the key to the quality is in the simplicity of the ingredients.

>>6713141

"Fast casual" is mostly a marketing term. Companies calling themselves "fast casual" is not going to make themselves any less fast food.

>> No.6713803

>>6713011

holy nigger their burritos are way too godlike

i'm gonna try taqueria cancun soon

>> No.6713861

the best burritos are in liquorstores that have kitchens. down and dirty cheap and greasy

>> No.6713870

>>6713367
I'm sorry I'm beyond the hate-chipotle meme and actually like good tasting food. Corn and spicy green salsa together, holy shit it's delicious

>> No.6713888

>>6713870
Most people agree that Chipotle is delicious. It's just that they've expanded their horizons enough to not call it "orgasmic" and to call it a "meme" to hate Chipotle. If it's one of the greatest things you've ever eaten, then you must not have been eating tasty food for most of your life or something.

>> No.6714035

>>6713888
I'm regularly stuck eating shitty storebought meals for reasons I won't bother explaining so any time I actually get to eat something as good as Chipotle is a godsend.

It definitely makes it taste a lot better, but I wouldn't say that's the only reason why it tastes so good. I like it, that's about it.

>> No.6714044

>>6713861
No they're not. Spic burritos are shit and not real burritos. Real burritos come from Chipotle®, because white people make them and anything white people make is automatically the best.

>> No.6714052

>>6714035
>reasons I won't bother explaining

That's disappointing.

I kinda know that feel, though.

>> No.6714067

>>6712960
You have two stomachs?

>> No.6714100

Nothing chipottell,kid

>> No.6714483

>>6714100
Literally the drunkest post on this board right now, and that's saying something considering all the drunks here.

Are you saying that you eat "nothing Chipotle" and that op is a kid? It'll be even more cryptic if you were responding to someone and were too drunk to click on their post ID.

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>>6712960
Half as popular, but twice as good. Better selection of ingredients, and tastes superior to Shitpotle. If you want decent, fast food, "not Taco Bell", somewhat-Mexican food, anyway. Plus, that queso.

>> No.6714504

>>6714499
>queso
Global Rule 2

>> No.6714525

>>6712960
It's basically to taco bell what shake shack is to wendy's.

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Here's how you make chipotle taste good.

Get tacos, but ask for the tortillas seperate. Get your meat with beans, tomato, fajita veggies, little corn, and get red salsa and sour cream in portion cups. Take it home and assemble.

>> No.6714745

>>6712960
It strikes me as subway for mexican food marketed to college students and yuppies.

I thoroughly enjoy it but it's not like it's ambrosia.

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>>6712960
If you want a vastly superior burrito in a similar style of restaurant you HAVE to hit up Cafe Rio. The tortillas alone make it so much fucking better. They're even better in the tacos.

>> No.6716340

>>6713397
>visit /ck/ after being gone a few months

>see Chipotle thread

>expect the usual "so what do you get when you visit Chipotle" spammer thread full of Chipotle marketing buzz words "fast-casual" "wholesome" "fresh" "healthy" "guacamole"

>surprised to find a thread abut how mediocre Chipotle actually is

did Chipotle spammer get banned or something?

>> No.6716660

If you live in cali and go to chipotle you are probably retarded to be honest.

>> No.6717114

I'm still going to go there because of the buy one get one.

At that rate, it's worth it.

>> No.6718640

>ordering a burrito
This is the sign of a chipotle noob.

Get a bowl or go the fuck home.

More food fits in a bowl than in a tortilla, and you can thorougly mix the ingredients together.

>> No.6718654

>walk into Chipotle near my house
>chicken burritos are now fucking $7.15

Fuck that man. They've increased prices so much over the past few years that I just don't want to eat there any more. It's not the deal it used to be.

>> No.6718658

>wasting dozens of dollars on bland "Mexican" food
Just save your money and go down to the 'Bell, boys.
It's cheaper, more plentiful, more diverse, and much more filling than this overrated tourist trash.

>> No.6718689

>>6718658
Taco Bell is actively trying to emulate Chipotle with their new "cantina" menu.

Taco bell used to have heavily seasoned rice with some kind of red sauce coating it.

Now they just switched to shitty white rice to look more like chipotle

>> No.6718796

>>6713888
>Most people agree that Chipotle is delicious

chipotle isnt delicious though

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>try the carnitas
>holy shit, I'm only getting carnitas from now on
>next time I go they don't have carnitas
>saying they don't carry it anymore because of "organic issues"
>yeah right, it's just because of pork prices going up you lying pieces of shit