Posted on 08/08/2018 8:00:06 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Chipotle in Powell between July 26 and 30
Chipotle said that it voluntarily closed the store last week for 24 hours after the period the illnesses were reported, replacing all of its food and cleaning and sanitizing the restaurant.
Sheila L. Hiddleson, the health commissioner from the county, said in an email that it was still awaiting lab results to determine the cause of the sicknesses.
The Dayton Daily News said that tests have so far come back negative for Salmonella, Shigella, E. coli and Norovirus.
Chipotle has had some high-profile issues with food safety before. A federal inquiry examined the Denver-based chain’s food safety practices in 2015 after 207 people became ill with norovirus after eating at an outpost in California. As The Post’s Caitlin Dewey reported, outbreaks of E. coli, salmonella and norovirus prompted it to close more than 2,000 locations for food safety training in February 2016.
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In other news: “Aaah, after being advised of possible contamination in the restraint, Chipotle immediately destroyed all evidence!”
It’s because they change the empty steamer trays, and drip the steamer tray basin dirty water into full food trays while removing them. It’s gross. I can’t believe nobody has ever noticed this. Too bad, their food tastes pretty good.
"Something Extra from across the border."
Did they bother to swab the illegal employees’ unwashed hands?
People need to stop eating out if they don’t want to get sick. I was sick (both ends!) this spring from eating out. It’s rare I eat out but was out of town so had to. Over 100 restaurant customers reported getting sick about that same time.
Same here. I wanted to see why some people like them so much. I still have no clue.
I used to manage a 24/7/365 food store that has a great deli. After the local Chipotle would close for the night the their employees would come to my store to buy our deli sandwiches and other food.
To a person, they were all filthy and looked like they had low-crawled all the way to my store.
My high school/college age kids used to love Chipolte and convinced their dad it was healthier and he would eat their occasionally. I ate their once, shortly before the first round of illnesses and I wasn’t impressed. Too many people handing too many different food. I wondered how they stayed in business with one person for every single item they dished out. Never saw anything like it before, thought it was a bit much and didn’t really like the food either. Of course, whole family would say that’s just mom, she’s dislikes and is opposed to most things.
Looks like Chipotle is being attacked by some people with an agenda.
I agree it does look like sabotage. Either in the store or at the food factory.
Some additional suspects:
¤ Staphylococcus aureus
o Clostridium perfringens
o Bacillus cereus
o Shigella sp.
o Hepatitis A virus
o Listeria monocytogenes
o Yersinia sp.
o Vibrio sp.
o Clostridium botulinum
o Campylobacter sp.
I am glad I never eat there.
My feeling too. I like Chipotle’s food, if I have to eat fast food, I eat there, and the staff is always very pleasant and most of them seem to be native born Americans not of Hispanic descent - saying this because of all of the Hispanic haters on this site.
The original outbreaks came because Chipolte was trying to buy local, that is, buy from smaller producers in the area instead of the agribusiness farms. The problem turned out to be that the smaller producers had none of the safeguards or the capacity to produce clean, large-scale produce for a place like Chipotle, which uses insane quantities of lettuce and greens (where the infections came from).
I don’t think Chipotle hires any more “illegal Mexicans” (since that’s the only type of illegal that people here seem to be obsessed with) than any other fast food place, and in fact, I think the comments on this site are bizarre beyond belief. Maybe posted by a business rival????
I have been in the food business my entire life and this problem with Chipotle HAS TO BE some kind of sabotage!!! BELIEVE ME when a company goes through this ONCE they put in measures to prevent it from EVER happening again!!!! The fact that this is REPEATEDLY happening to ONE company something is seriously wrong!!!! They NEED to start checking out managers or possibly higher up management that is holding a grudge about something!!!!
Couldn’t agree more. I’ve seen this before, a food-borne issue at a restaurant and the money spent and lock-down procedures put into motion.
Something is going on.
I was at a place where those flourescent lights that kill germs were installed over all the workspaces. People sent out to the supply chain to do surprise inspections, etc.
Being surprised people got sick at a Chipolte’s is like bringing a pit bull home from the pound and lamenting it bit everyone in the house.
I really feel sorry for this business doing business is hard enough BUT trying to keep ahead of this has got to be a nightmare!!!! Their liability insurance rates have got to be over the top, DONT know if they franchise but the franchisees have to be suffering!!! Then again if they do franchise it very well could be a pissed off franchissee trying to run the place out of business!!! The CEO NEEDS TO WAKE UP and start exploring ALL POSSIBLITIES!!!!
there are some strange people here.
They are taking a different approach, I don’t recall the details, to handing, preparing, and preserving vegetables. That was part of the business model to deliver “fresh”. But it is model to deliver contaminated food.
Do they still use local sources?
I read elsewhere that they do not have freezers, everything is fresh. I recall somewhere that they were trying to do prep differently as well. And something about how they clean and preserve everything.
Something is wrong with the chain--too many locations repeatedly are poisoning and even killing people over several years. Including employees.
I recall they floated renaming the chain in an attempt to start over.
Wonder if they have ever thought about rethinking their very operation?
And finally, this is too frequent, to dispersed, to be sabotage. Besides, why?
There are probably other chains that want to shoot them down because they’re popular but they have a somewhat different format. The food is very fresh and freshly cooked. I only eat there once or twice a month, but it’s always been fresh and good and the service has always been good.
I think, from what I have read, that they have made changes in their food procurement procedures, which is sort of a pity for local suppliers. But it’s very hard to go from just being a local supplier to being nationally important, and many a company, not only in the food service biz, has foundered on this.
Still, I think it’s odd that the agencies couldn’t determine the source of the contagion, and said it wasn’t the standard e-coli or one of the other ordinary food poisoning sources.
Also, I’ve never understood why people on FR hate Chipotle so much. All restaurant owners are lefties, and in fact anybody with money is a lefty, but why the heck do Freepers hate Chipotle so much?
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