Chipotle is known for their open serve mexican style food, however over the past years it was outed that it had some major sanitation issues, such dealing with cross-contamination and the closing of 45 stores because of their outed issues. In the 2017 outbreak it was caused by a norovirus, a norovirus is also known as the winter vomiting bug, it causes a person who gets infected, to vomit and can lead to viral gastroenteritis. In total it caused a total of 135 patrons got infected. In the 2015 outbreak it was E. Coli that was infecting people, E. Coli just like the norovirus can also cause vomiting however it’s main symptoms are diarrhea, and the way a person can die from E. Coli is from all the fluid loss that is passed through not giving
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In the 2017 outbreak chipotle said that it was caused by the meat by the way the ill-trained employees handled the food. One of the biggest consequence of the 2015 outbreak was the lawsuit they faced as a woman demanded in court $75,000. The second biggest that is still affecting Chipotle today is their stock value, chipotle’s stock is down and is facing one of its worst years, especially since the 2015 was not the first case and the last. In response to the outbreaks Chipotle first closed the 45 stores that were infected and had a major sanitation of all the stores, thoroughly disinfecting it. They also offered free food, and put in place newer sanitation rules. In the 2017 outbreak they closed down 43 restaurant even though only 8 were known as the cause to thoroughly clean and disinfect everything. In Sam Blum’s article he stated “CEO Steve Ells leading the conference with opening remarks. “The food safety incidents of 2015 revealed that our food safety program needed to be more robust,” he said. “It became clear that we were focused too much on building cultures that didn’t drive the results we were expecting.” CEO Steve Ells stated basically that they take full responsibility that they did not get the results they were
In the 2017 outbreak chipotle said that it was caused by the meat by the way the ill-trained employees handled the food. One of the biggest consequence of the 2015 outbreak was the lawsuit they faced as a woman demanded in court $75,000. The second biggest that is still affecting Chipotle today is their stock value, chipotle’s stock is down and is facing one of its worst years, especially since the 2015 was not the first case and the last. In response to the outbreaks Chipotle first closed the 45 stores that were infected and had a major sanitation of all the stores, thoroughly disinfecting it. They also offered free food, and put in place newer sanitation rules. In the 2017 outbreak they closed down 43 restaurant even though only 8 were known as the cause to thoroughly clean and disinfect everything. In Sam Blum’s article he stated “CEO Steve Ells leading the conference with opening remarks. “The food safety incidents of 2015 revealed that our food safety program needed to be more robust,” he said. “It became clear that we were focused too much on building cultures that didn’t drive the results we were expecting.” CEO Steve Ells stated basically that they take full responsibility that they did not get the results they were