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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????

Livius writes "The original outbreaks came because Chipotle 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)."

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?