Tag Archives: Chipotle

Courthouse News reports: Under a settlement approved by a federal judge, Chipotle will pay consumers $6.5 million to settle claims that it ran a misleading ad campaign pledging to serve only non-GMO food. Through ads using phrases such as “G-M-Over It,” the fast food chain touted itself as the first in the United States to use only ingredients derived from …

JMG reader Scott points us to this wailing story from Christian News: The embattled Tex-Mex restaurant chain Chipotle, which was founded by an open homosexual and is known for being vocal for its support for “gay rights,” closed all of its more than 2,000 restaurants on Monday to address the food safety issues that have plagued the company nationwide. According …

NBC News reports: Norovirus has sickened 80 Boston College students who ate at a nearby Chipotle restaurant, state health officials said Tuesday. “Initial testing conducted by the State Public Health has shown the presence of norovirus,” the health department said in a statement. Although many of the students said they feared they’d been struck with the same E. coli bacteria …

CNN reports: Chipotle has temporarily closed dozens of its restaurants in Washington and Oregon out of an abundance of caution after an E. coli scare. No one has died in the reported cases of infection, the Washington State Department of Health said. Seven of the Washington patients and one Oregon patient were hospitalized. The source of contamination has yet to …

Source. (Tipped by JMG reader Daddy Ray)

The Clinton campaign stopped for lunch at a Chipotle in suburban Ohio yesterday and the press is making a big deal because nobody there recognized her. Via the New York Times: Maybe it was the dark sunglasses. Or maybe she had a certain je ne sais — qui? But nobody took notice of the celebrity in front of the counter. …

Tea Party supporters are already furious at Chipotle for asking “open carry” nuts not to bring their weapons into their outlets. This weekend ten of thousands of teabaggers shared a Tea Party News Network post which declares that Chipotle is run by communists. After Chipotle declared that they were prohibiting patrons from exercising their Second Amendment rights in their restaurants, …

Over the weekend a Texas “open carry” group visited a Dallas outlet of Chipotle, where they bravely protected their burritos with semi-automatic weapons. After a furious social media campaign from the anti-gun group Moms Demand Action, Chipotle has issued a meek request: The issue of gun ownership or gun rights has become one of the most contentious debates in the …

A commercial comes first. Here’s the original. (Tipped by JMG reader Jeff)

No, really. It’s gorgeous. And their name scarcely appears. (Via Gawker)