Middle age people with jobs also can’t afford Chipotle in the PedoEconomy.
So that means Chipotle will lead by example and start paying all their employees a livable wage, right? … Right??
Remember the $1 grilled cheese truck guy?
https://www.distractify.com/p/one-dollar-grilled-cheese-truck
It didn’t ever actually happen (that I know of) but those trucks should exist everywhere and park right next to overpriced fast food restaurants to exert some economic pressure on them to lower their prices. Shit is ridiculous.
Yeah, what we got instead was a place selling lobster rolls for $23 a pop.
I am with you, there should be (a place selling dollar cheesies), but the fact that there isn’t is telling about how unfeasible that is.
Yeah, I mean, the dollar cheesy is in the supermarket.
Farmer’s markets are pretty close to this though, sometimes.
Who’d see this coming, when the population has no money to spend and the top 0.1% is taking all the money, so there’s nothing to spend? Not the billionaires, that’s for sure. I really cannot wait for the fall when they will realise how much they fucked up. I’m definitely not going to help them, no matter how much money they offer. They did this to themselves, and I’ll be happy when the population starts eating ^the rich^.
It’s actually been this way for a while. The top 10% of American earners do half of all consumer spending. A massive amount of the economy has shifted to reflect this. Businesses are often targeting business to business sales rather than business to customer. Pay to win video games use free players as content for whales to play through. And if you’re selling physical goods, you’re probably either doing it as cheaply as possible, or absolutely gouging the assholes you’re selling to (think ikea vs Kohler’s premium brand, for which a lamp costs 5 figures and the website doesn’t gave prices listed).
I always thought whales were actually middle class or even poor people that have essentially a gambling addiction.
Sometimes. The only real difference is earnings. There was the rumor that a saudi prince kept a couple mobile games alive solely based on his own spending for a while. Anecdotally I know of at least one person making six figures who was spending five figures a month on mobile games (and eventually declared bankruptcy) and another spending a grand a month that fit it into his budget. The point remains, games designed to extract thousands from individual players have grown very popular among industry execs because it’s more profitable (and often easier) to squeeze an inordinate amount out of one player than to get $10 out of 100 players. Marketing for that top 1% spender is definitely exploiting addiction, but they’re making it for the ones who will continue to afford it, and thus continue to fund the game
wait, people were able to afford it before? never went becuase it was overpriced.
Used to be able to feed my partner and I for less than $20 easily and have leftovers.
Now it’s damn near $30
thats still crazy, i don’t eat out much just on price alone but also most places i find the food too much.
I feel like I’m trying to rationalize insanity, and I do understand the reason, but why does the burrito company need stock?
Money
On top of what others said, they issued it for cash so they can expand their business and pass the risk onto investors.
…Hence the risk now.
why not?
And their food is mostly rice and beans.
Yeah i don’t eat there often so it was quite apparent the last couple times that they’ve removed everything with flavor and substituted it for extra rice and beans, while charging more for it. My city has dozens and dozens of Mexican restaurants and food trucks that offer way better taste and portions for way less money.
But it’s such delicious (and overpriced) rice & beans.
This must be the end of the monopoly game. I guess we either flip the board or die
Nah, we set up some pillars across the board and place another board on top. Repeat after that one is full. Each level gets more rickety.
I feel like this jenga tower of monopoly boards were on is pretty rickety
Boatwright said Chipotle is “doubling down on restaurant execution,” increasing marketing spend, plans to create more digital experiences, and introduce more innovation.
The problem is prices for the quality you get. Instead of spending money on improving those things, they’re dumping it on more commercials and “digital experiences”.
Yes, that will totally make people or want to buy overpriced mediocre fake Mexican food.
Corporate slop bowls… I can’t see them any different from that now
I don’t eat there because the last time I did, I got severe food poisoning. If I want shit fast Mexican food, I’ll go to Taco Bell.
Plus, at taco bell, you can get like 5 or 6 bean and rice burritos even if you add a few toppings to it and have it toasted, for the same price of one burrito at chipotle.
Isn’t it Mission style which once was part of Mexico but is now the USA. It’s the style from the SF bay area.
maybe it has something to do with ripping people off on takeout orders
I thought I was CRAZY. I tried the $5 burrito hack on a take out order and was mildly unimpressed. It’s ok in a pinch but for 50 cents more I’ll get way more food at McDonald’s. My wife went in and ordered it on a different day and they gave her SIGNIFICANTLY more food. Like double. In that scenario it’s definitely worth it.
What is this hack? My Chipotle hack is to order a burrito bowl with all the free extra toppings, get two tortillas on the side, and you can portion out the bowl into about two regular sized Chipotle burritos.
It’s the same but you order a taco instead of the burrito bowl. All the free toppings you get them on the side.
hearing people say “get way more food for $5.50 (total) at McDonald’s” is wild
in Canada, a jr chicken (mchicken equivalent? it’s been a while) is $4. used to be a good value. not anymore
I remember when the McChicken was a buck.
Same
Don’t forget all the other restaurants that are screwing us blue.
Taco Bell adheres to the 12.72% year over year inflation rate because why not?
Two mcchickens or a mcchicken and McDouble are only $5 in most areas.
One regular mcchicken on its own is like 3.79 (California, but I travel a lot and it’s sorta consistent).
Portland metro area a mcchicken is $4.20
They have the audacity to still have it in the “McValue” section
Here in AZ a sausage mcmuffin with egg is 6.99 before tax
Thats crazy, I can get 2 sausage egg n cheese mcmuffins for $4.50 after tax and this is NJ (were not cheap).
Maybe robots and AI can buy your food. 😐
Chipotle has been shit ever since their data breach years ago. Fuck 'em.
I live twenty minutes from a Qdoba and they have yet to fuck up my order or skimp on toppings.
The Qdoba near me is garbage at folding burritos, and I’ve rarely seen anyone else in there. I wonder if it’s a money laundering front. Still better than Chipotle 😅
garbage at folding burritos
Please enjoy your fancy taco, sir.
Man, I am crushed by how badly my local Qdoba prepares their proteins. It’s not like that at other Qdobas.
Do you boycott every company thats had a breach?
Only after they fuck up my order nearly half a dozen times with a drastic reduction in quality AND quantity.
Yes.
Yes I do.
Ah I gotcha, fair enough!
Pretty sure a lot of young people with jobs can’t afford it either.
I paid 16$ for a bowl the other day of the new steak. Ya. That was a hard pill to swallow. 16$. I could have gone to Applebee’s for that price, or Chilli’s!
the best taco place in town (current opinion fluid, we just lost the previous best taqueria and we’re in mourning and search mode) has $2.50 tacos. I have the appetite of a teenager and three satisfy me, plus they’re delicious. i have trouble justifying going elsewhere
I miss my old spot. Only place that did chicken like I like. Dry and overcooked. They had 3$ tacos and 3 would hit the spot.
Uh, the food at both those restaurants is considerably worse. It’s all just microwaved crap as far as I can tell. You CAN get a beer as either tho, which has them generally winning in my book tho.
Are you trying to tell me that many restaurant chains have premade food they heat in a microwave?! Wheres Gordon Ramsay’s kitchen nightmares when you need it?!
I love Chipotle. Maybe it’s just the locations near me, but the quality is good and prices are not as high as some others in the thread say; certainly not $20. Maybe $11 or $12, and for a really big meal.
Unfortunately I stopped eating there when I stopped shopping at Target, when they got rid of their DEI policies in clear capitulation to MAGA. Plenty of places with comparable quality & price that at least try not to do hiring discrimination
Oof media didn’t talk about DEI. I’m not going to chipotle anymore
Any info on this? I can’t find anything about Chipotle removing any DEI stuff.
