Chipotle faced some issues that posed a threat to the company. One issue was that some of the suppliers did not supply them with 100 percent farm raised food and animals. They were heavily criticized for not living up to the Food With Integrity mission. This is a problem Chipotle definitely needed to fix in order to win costumers over and also gain new ones. Another issue was that the company grew and expanded rapidly, however, they encountered financial challenges while trying to raise funds to open new branches.…
Chipotle Mexican Grill was founded in 1993 with the goal to combine features of fine dining with quick service. Founder Steve Ells envisions the Chipotle experience as Food With Integrity. By this he means using organic, free of GMO ingredients and naturally raised meat. The menu is also very simple with just four items: burritos, bowls, tacos, and salads. Health.com included Chipotle in it’s list of “Healthiest Fast Food Restaurants.”…
The incorporation of ever changing innovations and building new partnerships with suppliers who are willing to be a part of Chipotle’s Food With Integrity campaign, can push Chipotle to be on top and maximize profits while satisfying their consumers. The company has already employed a new chef who is experienced in devising new menus and has planned to test them in the new restaurants. Although it is a challenging idea since Chipotle is known for its signature menu items, it is an innovation that can grow with the company. Furthermore, Chipotle has also plans of incorporating a children’s menu so that children and families can visit the various restaurants, frequently. As part of their innovative strategies, Chipotle also plan to open in Asia,…
Both Chipotle and Chick-fil-A have similar philosophies about fresh and organic food supplies. The two fast-food restaurants are used to analyze internal processes, concepts and tools. A flowchart is depicted to show a visual representation of the original supply chain that may have led to Chipotles food contamination crisis. An additional flowchart is included to suggest an improved way to supply the Chipotle restaurant chains to prevent such an incidence. Chick-fil-A is analyzed and a flow chart is presented to evaluate how the manufacturing process can be improved to remain competitive.…
On Halloween night from 5:00 pm to closing time, you have the chance to get a burrito, taco, or salad from Chipotle for only three dollars! All you have to do is wear a costume and then add an unnecessary addition to it. An example would be a fairy costume and then add a mustache to your face or a ghost in high heels. The message that they are trying to say, from the costumes, is that Chipotle's food is made with all natural foods that are not processed or added with preservatives, such as how McDonalds, Burger King, and others' food are added with preservatives so that they can last longer. McDonald's and Burger King also have processed foods so that they can make the products at a cheaper price.…
Intro/Background http://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-chipotle-oral-history/ Chipotle Mexican Grill was founded by Steve Ells in 1993. The concept of the restaurant was inspired by the foil wrapped mission-style burritos Steve ate while working in San Francisco, California. When he proposed the idea to his friends and family, they were not too supportive about it. His dad’s response was “So you have six years of pretty expensive schooling here, and it's going to be burritos and tacos? Are you serious?”.…
MOTIVATION AND BACKGROUND OF PROBLEM/OPPORTUNITY Chipotle and Qdoba are two competing Mexican Grills in the Springfield, Missouri area. The two restaurants are compared frequently because of their similarities in price and choice of food and drink. The grills also market in a futuristic way by using the internet for the majority of all advertisements. Chipotle’s website states, “…we focus on sourcing the best possible ingredients, serving the tastiest food, and growing the most capable team we can” (Arnold 2014).…
This allowed Chipotle to successfully overcome this threat to its brand equity. According to Jonathan Bernstein, a crisis PR expert, says that “Chipotle has built up so much good will with its branding efforts that it can withstand this major PR setback” The reason Chipotle could overcome this obstacle so well was because of the amount of goodwill it had produced before the incident with its customers. Customer loyalty plays a huge role in whether or not the company is able to get past outbreaks of illnesses in its…
In the Chipotle super bowl ad, there is a wave of depressing feelings being portrayed as the ad shows a farmer, who has just started a family, and seems like a nice guy that soon turns into a farmer that begins caging up all of these farm animals and injecting chemicals and other inhumane things into them. Luckily, the farmer comes to a realization towards the end as to what he has done and is able to 'save' the farm animals by undoing all the horrible things he began doing in the beginning. I believe the purpose of this ad is to get its audience to eat at Chipotle or to make their audience remember Chipotle so that when they are hungry, Chipotle is one of the first places they think of. This ads audience is families and people who are opposed…
Pregame meals are an important part of most sports fans’ gameday routine. My routine involves eating a Chipotle burrito bowl in front of my television prior to Tampa Bay Lightning ice hockey games. I do this in good faith that my routine will lead the Bolts, as they are dubbed, to victory. Gameday Chipotle just seemed to fit because after all, hockey is a sport full of superstition and protein-crunching athletes. By 6:30 on Saturday evening, I was ready.…
Decisions. They haunt us, taunt us, and sometimes tear into our relationships like hungry dogs. Though this may be an exaggeration, there is not one among us who has not faced a decision as important as the one to follow: Chipotle or Q’Doba? Both claim to have fresh ingredients, friendly service, and an array options for culinary bliss. However, when stacked one against the other, one offers its consumers peace of mind and a stance on the moral high ground, while the other falls short in this category.…
Throughout this course we have been discussing the Chipotle crisis, and unfortunately its not quite over yet. This past Tuesday, five students of Miami University in Oxford Ohio came into the schools medical center complaining about stomach pains, nausea, vomiting, and diarrhea. These five students, along with more unidentified cases tested positive for the Norovirus, which is a common cause of food-borne diseases. Norovirus being the same virus thats been a reported an outbreak at Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc across the United States in the past several months. According to this article, this very affects about 21 million people in the U.S each year, causing between 570-800 related deaths.…
The relationship of the suppliers and the users if knowledge, are tending towards a relationship of commodity producers and consumers (Lyotard, 1979). Knowledge is produced to be sold, and will be consumed in order to be valorized in a new production, with a driven goal of exchange. Chipotle’s (2013), commercial is a play of illusions and phantasms: scarecrows, corporate crows and animations. Further, creating a hyper reality around the food…
Rhetorical Analysis In 2013 Chipotle released a commercial, called “The Scarecrow,” that tries to inform its audience of the problems within the fast food industry while simultaneously promoting the Chipotle brand . Chipotle wants the viewer to know that they are not like other “fast food” restaurants . It is doing so to make people feel less guilty about eating their meals and making them understand that even though delicious, their meals are healthier than most other fast food chains’. One of the biggest reasons for this is that the commercial doesn’t mention “chipotle” at all until the very end and only for a brief moment too.…
In Julie Jargon and Jesse Newman’s article, “Fresh Ingredients Came Back to Haunt Chipotle”, the authors discuss how Chipotle is phasing their way out of a major decline in their company. Chipotle is a chain currently suffering due to heath safety issues, and because of this, their sales have dramatically fallen. Chipotle was once a leading company as the article notes: “Steve Ellis built Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. into a restaurant-industry leader by playing offense, brashly touting fresher and more virtuous food than competitors. His company boasted of ‘food with integrity’ and ridiculed rivals for using artificial ingredients” (Jargon, Jessie B6). Chipotle once proudly stressed utilizing fresh ingredients than artificial ones.…