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Chipotle: Fast Eating Habits

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Food is to humans as gasoline is to motor vehicles. We rely on food to provide us with our daily nutrients and vitamins. However, nutritional value isn’t the only aspect we analyze when we pick our meals. We also focus our attention on accessibility and mainly taste to veer our minds from one selection to another. Sadly, it is this choice and freedom that have brought society to a crossroads. The time has come where we must decide to eat healthy or have good taste and accessibility. Fast food will harm one way or another. For example, Chipotle, a Mexican grill, provides consumers with high quality burritos and salads. To society’s dismay, they have been linked with an E. Coli outbreak. Their “healthy” food has suddenly become unhealthy. As a whole, the community needs to become smarter regarding their meals. Chipotle is considered one of the fastest and strongest growing food chains in America. Children and adults all over crave just a whiff of their food and they will go berserk. The common meal consists of either a 13 inch burrito or a salad along with guacamole and lemon seasoned chips. The average meal provide 1,000 calories towards our daily recommended caloric intake. However, one burrito is considered the equivalent of two …show more content…

Coli is one of the deadliest bacterias to be involved with any kind of food brand. Many brands have met with bacterial invasions. However, the most recent and most talked about is E. Coli attacking Chipotle. The bacteria is a rod shaped bacterium that is commonly found in the lower intestine of a warm blooded mammal. Despite being in our bodies, consuming it can have some dangerous affects. Common symptoms are: abdominal cramps, fever, fatigue, diarrhea, vomiting, and loss of appetite. The bacteria have infiltrated Chipotle’s health measures and caused economic downfall for the brand. The initiation of the bacteria are yet to be found. First, it was believe to be from the meat. Then, the veggies were accused. No one knows for

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The original material of food cost of Chipotle operating costs is larger than other fast food restaurants, although this is a measure they have to implement to ensure freshness and health of food they sold, this is the reason for their high food prices. Even if the majority of customers are willing to pay for the higher cost of health food, Chipotle still should find out some effective ways to reduce the cost of their food in the future. Here are some suggestions: firstly,negotiate with the original suppliers to establish a long-term and stronger cooperative relationship to achieve a purpose of a certain reduction in the purchase price. Secondly, take advantage of suppliers’ promotional discounts. Attempt to make communications and collaborations

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Chipotle is one of the most successful restaurant in the U.S. but every organization got some weakness and problems, today I would like to share with you what is the biggest chipotle’s problem ever that cost this restaurant a lot of money and lose trust from costumers and bad image in the media which is POISONING !! :- The fifth-biggest multistate sustenance harming flare-up of 2015 was the E. coli episode connected to nourishment served at Chipotle eateries in nine states. No less than 52 people were sickened, 20 of them were hospitalized. The episode was one of a few nourishment harming flare-ups connected to Chipotle this year including a Salmonella flare-up that sickened more than 60 individuals in Minnesota.

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The macro-environment is defined by Kotler et al (2004), as societal forces which exerts their influences on the industry, and thereby affects all fragments of the industry. Currently Chipotle is faced with a significant strategic issue: an E.coli outbreak in locations on both the West and East Coasts of mainland United States. According to Chipotle Mexican Grill (2015), on December 21, 2015 the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) notified Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., that they were investigating five cases of E. coli outbreak in their Kansas, Oklahoma and North Dakota locations. Chipotle’s vision is stated as “Food with Integrity”.

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With its mission statement of “Food with Integrity” Chipotle has seen success over the last decade. But with the increase of raw material input increasing, Competitors using pricing strategy to compete for its market share and the economic Chipotle is facing some though decision on if it should continue with its “Food with Integrity” which it can ill afford in these difficult times. In this paper, we will try address ways in which Chipotle can reposition its efforts to focus more on this unique offering without affecting their “Food with Integrity” Concept. By doing so, we believe that it can capture the important and growing segment of customers who are the health-conscious, organic-friendly consumer.

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All over the world the delicious burrito has been advertised. With the new breakfast burrito from Taco Bell and the varieties of them you can make from Chipotle it is hard to think of how people can live without it. Although they’re many ways to make a burrito the enticing factor that the burrito has is that every burrito you have is unique in its own way. Either if you prefer to put hot sauce on yours or like to put shredded cheese there is something about the food that invites people to make this traditional Mexican oriented food their own masterpiece.

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