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[mom2four0418]

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@ValuSkr wrote:

Chipotle seems immune to the effects of bad publicity.  It's had so many outbreaks of e coli, salmonella, etc., yet keeps on going.  We joke about it when someone offers to pick up food from Chipotle.

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If you check the Chipotle financials for 2016, you will see that they are hardly immune from the effects of bad publicity.

[Carmie]

Years ago,my sister and I ate at a restaurant that was located inside of JC Penny's.  I ordered a salad.  I ate 3/4 of it when I found a bread twist tie.  then I moved the lettuce around and there around 10 more.  Gross.

the waitress said the twist ties were stored in a basket over the salad items and must have tumbled into my salad bowl while it was being made.  

They comped our meals, but that was still gross.

a few years ago, we ordered Chinese at our favorite restaurant for take-out.  I bit down and felt instant pain.  I spit out a hard item and it was a stone.

i looked at the rest of the food in the container and there was a handful of stones in the bottom...they type you would find in a driveway..like gravel.  I threw the food out and we never went back.

No wonder we prefer to eat at home.  That's only the stuff I know about.  I wonder what else was wrong with food we ate that was prepared by others.

Almost everyone I know has a story about resturant food that went wrong.

[GSPgirl]

Went there once.  That’s all it took to know it wasn’t as good as Moe’s.  Service was awful. 

[GSPgirl]

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@Silver Lining wrote:

I've heard of people bringing icky things like bugs, hair, etc. to put on the plate so they can get a free meal.

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Yep.  I knew someone who did that.  He used to take a cockroach with him to lunch.  

[ALRATIBA]

We have one a couple of blocks from me.  I stop in a couple of times a month.

I'm trying to figure out how that could happen. 

I order a burrito and the guy/gal behind the counter steams the wrap and then we walk down the counter and pick the fillings.  If there were any foreign matter, it would be fairly obvious either in the pan, on the serving spoon or on the wrap. 

[hsawaknow]

Some of these stories are gross. The staples in the burrito are just frightening.

[SahmIam]

The last time I ate at Chipotle, I came down with food poisoning.  Had the chicken on a salad with vegis and a water. Walking from the restaurant to the car, the nausea hit me. Home was 15 minutes away. Made it in time. I'll spare you the details but it went on for hours. Found out that 2 of my friends who took home chicken dishes to family members had those family members become sick as well shortly after eating their food. This happened last month.

Never again.

[Marp]

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@ALRATIBA wrote:

We have one a couple of blocks from me.  I stop in a couple of times a month.

I'm trying to figure out how that could happen. 

I order a burrito and the guy/gal behind the counter steams the wrap and then we walk down the counter and pick the fillings.  If there were any foreign matter, it would be fairly obvious either in the pan, on the serving spoon or on the wrap. 

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@ALRATIBA, I've never eaten at Chipolte so I don't know how they serve the food to customers so I have to ask, how is the food handed to you--in a basket, wrapped in waxed paper, wrapped in foil or some other way.

If the food is not routinely handed to the customer wrapped in foil it would appear the staple sandwich was a take-out order so there would not have been any walking down the counter picking out the fillings while watching the employee.

As to how it could happen I would suppose that if it were a takeout/delivery order the receipt was stapled to the box and an employee refilled the stapler and dropped some staples that happened to land on the food before it was wrapped.

[ALRATIBA]

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@Marp wrote:

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@ALRATIBA wrote:

We have one a couple of blocks from me.  I stop in a couple of times a month.

I'm trying to figure out how that could happen. 

I order a burrito and the guy/gal behind the counter steams the wrap and then we walk down the counter and pick the fillings.  If there were any foreign matter, it would be fairly obvious either in the pan, on the serving spoon or on the wrap. 

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@ALRATIBA, I've never eaten at Chipolte so I don't know how they serve the food to customers so I have to ask, how is the food handed to you--in a basket, wrapped in waxed paper, wrapped in foil or some other way.

If the food is not routinely handed to the customer wrapped in foil it would appear the staple sandwich was a take-out order so there would not have been any walking down the counter picking out the fillings while watching the employee.

As to how it could happen I would suppose that if it were a takeout/delivery order the receipt was stapled to the box and an employee refilled the stapler and dropped some staples that happened to land on the food before it was wrapped.

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@Marp 

They lay the wrap on a piece of foil and then layer the customer's selections on the wrap as they move along the counter.  At the end, the guy/gal rolls up the entire burrito and puts it in a bag.  Then gives the bag to the cashier who asks if you want to add chips ... then folds the bag closed, puts into a grocery type plastic bag and hands it to me.  No staples involved.  I'm standing there the entire time makng my selection and watching the burrito being constructed!

Even if they were to staple a tag for a delivery - the bag is already folded close and inserted in a plastic bag.  

The whole staple story sounds odd.  Per my experience ... this "doesn't compute."

[Marp]

@ALRATIBA, while I sincerely thank you for answering my question I should be wagging my finger at you for your detailed description because now I want a burrito!!!