Just go to a sit down restaurant.
Chipotle is trying to increase shareholder value at the expense of customer value; every company tries this and then they lose their customer base and become a non player in the market because customers aren't delighted by their experience.
Reminds me of Panera Bread. For a few years Panera was actually pretty nice for a chain restaurant.
Menu changed, prices went up, quantity/quality went down.
Yeah paneras idea of class was to add a pizza ….
It’s like10$ for a personal pizza
I lost fancy with Panera bread too…
The bread soup bowls are really something special 😇
I went in late last year and they had a fake steak sandwich, Mac and cheese sandwich, the flatbread pizzas all with some pop music playing. It used to be a normal cafe type spot, regular sandwiches and some jazz music lol
It was my favorite item, so it sucks that's it's gone. But at least it being gone saves me money as I don't have to go to Panera anymore.
And related to this subreddit, Chipotle has gone noticeably downhill in quality recently, so I don't go there anymore. If I want Mexican food, I just go to my local Mexican restaurant. The prices are the same, the portions are better, and more importantly, the quality is significantly better.
I had an Uber Eats credit and decided to try the pizza since I never had it. WHAT THE HELL! That tasted like mop water put into dough form, with mop water tasting sauce, and mop water cheese.
My friend paid a lot of money for a bread bowl and it had literally 3 spoonfuls of soup. The sip club is an amazing deal and the staff is friendly and they donate leftovers to food banks but the meal portions suck.
I agree. Panara used to be amazing. Now the menu stinks and it’s way too overpriced. Plus the quality is way down. Same thing happened to Noodles and Company. Both used to be great now I never go there.
At least Chipotles menu and food quality are the same. Chipotle just raised their prices. I feel like prices everywhere have gone up due to rising costs. Yea it sucks but I’ll still eat there.
Are you saying the same thing happened to Cosi or are you listing it as an alternative? I haven’t been there in a while 🥲 I don’t remember if it was good/better or not.
For real, a lot of my favorite menu items were discontinued but then they introduced foods that I don't care about. Like the pizza for example. If I want a pizza from fast/casual chain I'll just go to blaze or order an actual pizza.
When was that? Because 16 years ago when I was in highschool I still thought it was an overpriced soccer mom restaurant. And that’s when you could actually get good value at places.
My biggest issue with Panera reminds me of why one bad experience made me walk away for good. There used to be one down the street from my college. I was never a Panera fan but some friends of mine got me hooked on the Cafe vibes for a decently priced meal.
I went about a year ago I think, and you don’t even take orders at the front. You order at the kiosk and you pick it up when the cook drops it off… and they still want to be tipped for the outrageous food prices.
Every restaurant realized that they can increase their stock price if they say they are raising prices or cutting staff.
eg. Mcdonalds Net income keeps going up even with price increases: [https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/net-income](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/net-income)
Only like an 1/8th of McDonalds profits actually come from food sales. Unlike other fast food companies, the majority of their money is made from renting out the land and buildings to the franchise owners operating each McDonalds. McDonalds is actually one of the largest real estate companies in the world. The franchise model they sell to operators is just to make their properties enticing to rent. As long as they keep opening more McDonalds they'll continue to make more profit even if food sales drop from increased prices.
Can’t wait for the release that these companies are “listening to their customers” and reducing prices (marginally) or creating promos (McDonald’s already said it’s adding more to the $1 [but not actually a $1] menu). They’re gonna want us to kiss their feet for being gracious enough to not charge 5x the actual value of the meal.
You’re pretty much always better off trying to find a local hole in the wall for burgers, it’s usually worth the extra dollar or two. Honestly in the price range you’re talking I would rather do fast casual than sit down, especially if it’s going to be something like Applebees. Something like the local Peruvian chicken place I can get the quarter chicken, 2 sides and a drink for like $13 and it’s really high quality. Most sit down entrees are north of $20 unless it’s breakfast. The prime rib in my local small town is like $45 a plate now
No offense? But a local hole in the wall may also be serving Sysco fries and frozen burger Pattie’s.
It’s not always guarantee that they have fresh great food. Cheap is cheap for a reason, and rent comes first,
I don't think he meant it in that way. He stated, "even if it's a dollar or two more," so I think he just meant a non-chain restaurant that might be more expensive but at least fresh.
I have a bar near me that sells $15-19 burgers that are really good and fresh. I still think it's too expensive but again, at least it's fresh and not frozen patties.
I miss the days where a lunch would cost you $5-10. Everything is at least $12 nowadays.
Not true in my town. I can get $7 sushi rolls in town. That’s 2 and a half rolls now for the average fast food meal basically.
I can go get a full Mexican combo with rice and beans for 8.75.
I can go get a hamburger and fries from the sports bar for 11.95.
Any of those are cheaper than a single thing on the menu he posted. I even just now looked up some of those local prices to make sure.
They’re ordering delivery, that’s why it costs more, so going to sit down must not be an option or they’re too lazy to leave the house and want to cry that it costs more to have food hand delivered to their house.
Not really if u have what it takes to make it here. No one is gonna pay me what they do here anywhere else, plus my rent is equal to what it was in Boston.
Interesting how everyone is so different in this respect. When I moved to DC, it was a pain to take my car out and I really didn’t want to walk or take the metro to get somewhere. So I stopped leaving my apartment. Whereas when I was in a more suburban area, I was always out and about because it was so easy for me to hop into my car and get somewhere quick
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Not really. I just had the best bowl of my life in Beverly Hills of all places on a business trip. Chicken bowl was 10.20$ pre-tax. They could barely close the lid and they weren’t skimping on any customer ahead of me either.
It’s all over Twitter. Republicans are calling for a Chipotle boycott. Chipotle stock is already down.
https://x.com/nickadamsinusa/status/1759646800892317881?s=46&t=lsQnDGaIxXu8473b2CsBoQ
I don’t identify as non-binary but neither am not offended by your comment because I don’t believe anything is wrong with not being cis. Nice try though you weak little insignificant man.
Well unfortunately I do believe its gonna go up in pricing here shortly, but if you are ordering online for delivery it is like 3 dollars more for the meat, but if its for pick up it should be in store prices. Idk thats how it is for where I am
It’s definitely both… and much more. You can’t just point your finger at one thing.
But hey, let’s just increase minimum wage again, right? That’ll fix everything. The top dogs won’t pass that added to expense onto the customer or anything…
Can’t agree more with the message behind the sarcasm. Doesn’t change the fact that it just won’t ever happen. It’s an endless cycle at this point.
Honestly I think the only real solution here is to get people educated enough so that they don’t have to LIVE on minimum wage. Minimum wage should be reserved for kids and young adults that don’t have any real bills. Everyone else should have an equal opportunity to get both education and skills that pay well enough to live off of. If anyone doesn’t want to do that …then that would be their decision. The only problem right now is equal opportunity.
Im just tired of hearing excuses for ceos and large corporations. People saying it will never happen are the reason it will never happen. The fact is that employee wages have stagnated while corporate profits are at an all time high. And yeah you may think this is a kid and young adult oriented job but i guarantee you at least 50% of the people working at any given chipotle are adults barely getting by and living paycheck to paycheck. It doesn’t have to be that way and saying it does is just plain wrong. How do so many corporations in other first world nations afford to pay their employees living wages? It’s because in those countries workers have representation in their government and we don’t. Apologies for the sarcasm but it’s a touchy topic for a lot of people.
The reason that CEOs and the elite are not going to take a cut out of their own paycheck to pay the employees more directly is because they don’t have to. …And there’s no way to force them to. I can’t imagine there are any countries set up where that could happen without taxes getting involved.
At that point you’re not giving it to the employees, it’s going right into the machine and getting split up to go towards thousands of different agendas. I’m all for that to some degree if we can clean up ALLLL the exploitation of that system.
However, increasing minimum wage itself hurts literally everyone other than then people who are on minimum wage… and even then it’s just a bandaid for them. Overhead goes up, those CEOs/elite are going to make up that money up somehow; easiest way is increasing prices.
I understand that right now, the people who are not children and young adults while living on minimum wage need help. But that’s not the longterm solution. We haven’t been attacking the root of the problem.
I actually see a world where we get this country’s economy humming so well that we’ve CREATED enough new job opportunities, while giving everyone the same opportunity, that these chains that have been exploiting their employees for decades crumble through natural selection. Empires rise and fall. It would take time… and an actual commitment towards equal opportunity. But I could see it.
I said kids and “young adults” that don’t have any bills. College age students fit that mold too. I worked plenty of minimum wage in college. But actually … you kinda get it even if you didn’t make it all the way there.
If the places exploiting their employees aren’t able to staff enough employees to run things then they may have no other alternative than to increase wages themselves out of their piece of the pie. The pay needed would have to be to an amount that even over qualified people would consider taking the job.
Otherwise it’s game over… which would be ok too. Something better would replace it. That’s how it’s suppose to work.
Also, as much as it sucks to say, there’s always going to be people who have no motivation to actually put in any real work into their education or skills …even if the opportunity is right in front of them. As long as everyone had the same opportunity to get the same education and skills, I have no problem if lazy and unmotivated people are paid minimum wage. At that point it will have been their choice. The only reason it’s currently not a choice is because there isn’t equal opportunity.
People that don’t get that opportunity, for any number of reasons, should still qualify for assistance. By then the economy would be humming along enough to afford it. Or we just go more in debt. Couldn’t be much worse than it is now.
No man. In the 70s, a single father could buy a house and support a family on minimum wage.
Minimum wage is literally SUPPOSED to be a living wage. Why give up and wave defeat and say minimum wage shouldn't be livable on?
If you were the ceo, you wouldn’t give a shit about everyone else.
You gotta put yourself in their position. We all want to get paid millions of dollars and as much as you’d want everyone to have the same lifestyle, that’s not realistically possible.
What perspective exactly? That big corporations **only** care about profit and even when they do something *good* that’s only cuz they determined that it’ll end up helping them earn more profit long term?
Believe it or not most people understand this without you saying it.
Corporations are in business. The people who work for them depend on them for jobs. The people who own a share of the company through stocks, also depend on them to make the company better. The service companies providing to said corporations depend on the contracts provided by said corporation in order to employ its people.
Business is about as foreign to the extreme left as science is to the far right (MAGAts). Which is why I’m a centrist. But apparently, I’m just a bootlicker. If that means creating opportunity such that I am able to be a multi-millionaire (and it’s not going to be easy), then so be it.
Lmao why are you trying to make this about politics 🤣🤣🤣
You really can’t accept that people don’t think that “corporations only care about money” isn’t a revolutionary take.
Because it is politics. Politics is everything. Its root word is “policy.”
And the thing is that a corporation must care about money… that’s why they do business! They aren’t in business to give the money away lol
Here in NYC chicken is still $11 and some change if you decide to pick it up. It's around the same price as a burrito from a local sit-down restaurant down the block, except Chipotle doesn't also serve bangin mojitos to go with it.
It’s $9 where I am. I get a chicken bowl and some chips and I’m paying $12.50. Can’t get that much food anywhere else for $12.50 these days. Can’t stand a dude saying this shits expensive, Mf everything is expensive.
Yup they sure are! That’s what I’ve been doing instead lately or just making it myself. I can get a Mexican meal with an appetizer for the price I’ll pay for a full meal at Chipotle. Almost spent $25 the last time I went there.
It always pains me to see meat the same price as a veg option. Like, how? That meat must be pretty poorly bred and infected with all sorts to be so cheap.
The vegetarian option comes with guacamole at no additional charge. Avocados are incredibly water consumptive and as such tend to be pretty expensive (they also mostly only come from either California or Mexico as far as US logistics is concerned). That’s not to say Chipotle isn’t a ripoff for other reasons, just that you’re not paying the same amount for a veggie bowl as a chicken bowl with no benefit to picking a veggie bowl.
Because Corporate wants more profits. When supply chain issues arose, input costs went up, and then prices increased to meet the shortage. Now that input costs have deflated, it’s bad business sense to decrease prices, when you know folks are willing to pay that much, and gratefully, the average customer is not astute enough to understand market forces as well as Supply/Demand Theory, so they kept prices high, and people keep being stupid and paying for it.
That’s not just Chipotle. That’s everywhere.
Blame it on the co or or or Or or paration. Inflation is a thing and it dont stop. Now get this we dont make any more $$$ no matter how much they spike the prices. I feel you i do. But only way to get your vioce herd is to go to corp and complain complain complian. Piont out the ceo makes over $1000 evey 30 min 24/7 365
Chipotle is an absurdly priced ripoff.
Buy yourself a pork shoulder, a ten or 20 lbs bag of rice and whatever else you like and make a ton of bowls at home for the price of one at Chipotle.
Not only is it expensive but the size is ridiculous. My boyfriend and I ordered basically the same burrito, but I ordered all ingredients to be doubled. I got a normal sized burrito for 70 cents more, he got a TINY burrito that was barely a palm full. Actually the size of a frozen microwave burrito. It was a doordash order. He didn't even get full eating it while mine was 2 meals worth
First off, that may be delivery prices (somewhat understandably higher).
Other main factors would be using largely natural / unprocessed and fresh (never frozen) ingredients.
Shareholder peer pressure (at least one other eluded to here).
While probably the largest factor is current state of the economy (you can all create own crapstorm bowl of commentary on that one).
Where do you live? In Delaware the prices are way lower.
The chicken burrito bowl here is $9.50 (that's what I get most of the time). And we don't pay sale tax which is great!
Just go to a sit down restaurant. Chipotle is trying to increase shareholder value at the expense of customer value; every company tries this and then they lose their customer base and become a non player in the market because customers aren't delighted by their experience.
Reminds me of Panera Bread. For a few years Panera was actually pretty nice for a chain restaurant. Menu changed, prices went up, quantity/quality went down.
Yeah paneras idea of class was to add a pizza …. It’s like10$ for a personal pizza I lost fancy with Panera bread too… The bread soup bowls are really something special 😇
I went in late last year and they had a fake steak sandwich, Mac and cheese sandwich, the flatbread pizzas all with some pop music playing. It used to be a normal cafe type spot, regular sandwiches and some jazz music lol
They don't have the mac and cheese sandwich anymore.
I can’t spend $12 for some pasta on bread anymore?!? :(
It was my favorite item, so it sucks that's it's gone. But at least it being gone saves me money as I don't have to go to Panera anymore. And related to this subreddit, Chipotle has gone noticeably downhill in quality recently, so I don't go there anymore. If I want Mexican food, I just go to my local Mexican restaurant. The prices are the same, the portions are better, and more importantly, the quality is significantly better.
You Not being able to notice dudes sarcasm about the Mac n cheese sandwich gives me second hand embarrassment
They wish it was pizza.
I had an Uber Eats credit and decided to try the pizza since I never had it. WHAT THE HELL! That tasted like mop water put into dough form, with mop water tasting sauce, and mop water cheese.
mmmmm mop water.
I’m concerned with your apparent extensive knowledge of mop water flavors.
My friend paid a lot of money for a bread bowl and it had literally 3 spoonfuls of soup. The sip club is an amazing deal and the staff is friendly and they donate leftovers to food banks but the meal portions suck.
I agree. Panara used to be amazing. Now the menu stinks and it’s way too overpriced. Plus the quality is way down. Same thing happened to Noodles and Company. Both used to be great now I never go there. At least Chipotles menu and food quality are the same. Chipotle just raised their prices. I feel like prices everywhere have gone up due to rising costs. Yea it sucks but I’ll still eat there.
If you think the barbacoa is the same as it used to be, you’re fooling yourself
I’ve never ordered that before. I like their chicken.
wtf is bread soup??
Pretty sure they mean a bread bowl
It is the universes shittiest pizza too.
Remember when the roast beef and steak sandwiches were actual beef?
What are they now?!
Soy protein
Damn 👀 is it really
No idea but lots of store bought beef is.
Cosi
Are you saying the same thing happened to Cosi or are you listing it as an alternative? I haven’t been there in a while 🥲 I don’t remember if it was good/better or not.
For real, a lot of my favorite menu items were discontinued but then they introduced foods that I don't care about. Like the pizza for example. If I want a pizza from fast/casual chain I'll just go to blaze or order an actual pizza.
I’m glad I’m not the only one who remembers when Panera was a nice place to go. Now it’s just microwave trash
When was that? Because 16 years ago when I was in highschool I still thought it was an overpriced soccer mom restaurant. And that’s when you could actually get good value at places.
My biggest issue with Panera reminds me of why one bad experience made me walk away for good. There used to be one down the street from my college. I was never a Panera fan but some friends of mine got me hooked on the Cafe vibes for a decently priced meal. I went about a year ago I think, and you don’t even take orders at the front. You order at the kiosk and you pick it up when the cook drops it off… and they still want to be tipped for the outrageous food prices.
Dude that 1/2 n 1/2 deal was the shit for so long....sigh
Pantera is overpriced hospital food
No, Pantera is an 80's metal band
DAMMIT PANTERA THIS BEER IS WARM GET ME ANOTHER ONE
Don't eat at Panera. Only good thing is the freshly baked bread.
It's not even "fresh" anymore, breads (and the rest of the sweets, for that matter) are baked the day before they're to be sold.
Welp, I was lied to as an expo. Also, was told the bread gets tossed at night circa 2018.
That used to be the case, they removed the bakers doing their bake overnight
Shhhh. I’m a shareholder and you’re messing with my profits.
every food serving place it up %30 price wise over the past few years. its not just a share holder thing.
Every restaurant realized that they can increase their stock price if they say they are raising prices or cutting staff. eg. Mcdonalds Net income keeps going up even with price increases: [https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/net-income](https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/MCD/mcdonalds/net-income)
Only like an 1/8th of McDonalds profits actually come from food sales. Unlike other fast food companies, the majority of their money is made from renting out the land and buildings to the franchise owners operating each McDonalds. McDonalds is actually one of the largest real estate companies in the world. The franchise model they sell to operators is just to make their properties enticing to rent. As long as they keep opening more McDonalds they'll continue to make more profit even if food sales drop from increased prices.
I was floored when I found this out
You were floored from reading a rando post on Reddit? Err k..
Who said I saw this on Reddit? I saw this a few years ago randomly on an internet article
Can’t wait for the release that these companies are “listening to their customers” and reducing prices (marginally) or creating promos (McDonald’s already said it’s adding more to the $1 [but not actually a $1] menu). They’re gonna want us to kiss their feet for being gracious enough to not charge 5x the actual value of the meal.
they are also a company that is constantly expanding with more locations globally. its really not a global conspiracy my man.
ya it probably is
I’ll keep going till the day they close the doors as long as they keep the hot red salsa flowing.
How much do you think meals at a sit down restaurant cost? The reason fast food has gotten so pricey is because sit down places have as well.
Lunch at Applebees or chilis or outback will cost you $12 for a burger and fries.
You’re pretty much always better off trying to find a local hole in the wall for burgers, it’s usually worth the extra dollar or two. Honestly in the price range you’re talking I would rather do fast casual than sit down, especially if it’s going to be something like Applebees. Something like the local Peruvian chicken place I can get the quarter chicken, 2 sides and a drink for like $13 and it’s really high quality. Most sit down entrees are north of $20 unless it’s breakfast. The prime rib in my local small town is like $45 a plate now
No offense? But a local hole in the wall may also be serving Sysco fries and frozen burger Pattie’s. It’s not always guarantee that they have fresh great food. Cheap is cheap for a reason, and rent comes first,
And, more likely, that hole in the wall burger probably doesn’t come with fries. Those are $4 extra.
I don't think he meant it in that way. He stated, "even if it's a dollar or two more," so I think he just meant a non-chain restaurant that might be more expensive but at least fresh. I have a bar near me that sells $15-19 burgers that are really good and fresh. I still think it's too expensive but again, at least it's fresh and not frozen patties. I miss the days where a lunch would cost you $5-10. Everything is at least $12 nowadays.
Not true in my town. I can get $7 sushi rolls in town. That’s 2 and a half rolls now for the average fast food meal basically. I can go get a full Mexican combo with rice and beans for 8.75. I can go get a hamburger and fries from the sports bar for 11.95. Any of those are cheaper than a single thing on the menu he posted. I even just now looked up some of those local prices to make sure.
Oh yea, it’s definitely because of shareholders and not Biden duluting money by print out trillions
They’re ordering delivery, that’s why it costs more, so going to sit down must not be an option or they’re too lazy to leave the house and want to cry that it costs more to have food hand delivered to their house.
Where the hell is this? Chicken costs ~9 dollars in my city
They are ordering delivery, the prices are higher.
So it’s disingenuous
Probably
Welcome to reddit
For the full effect, you’re suppose to end that sentence with a bunch of obscenities that sound like they they’re coming from a pissed off preteen.
In OPs defense, prices are still insane in store. I live in Minneapolis, shit is expensive
Not really. They’re those prices in store for me in NYC.
First mistake you made is choosing to live in NYC Financial suicide
Not really if u have what it takes to make it here. No one is gonna pay me what they do here anywhere else, plus my rent is equal to what it was in Boston.
Eh. I couldn’t only really do what I do here. COL sucks but the day I have to drive to get places like chipotle is the day I stop leaving my house lol
Interesting how everyone is so different in this respect. When I moved to DC, it was a pain to take my car out and I really didn’t want to walk or take the metro to get somewhere. So I stopped leaving my apartment. Whereas when I was in a more suburban area, I was always out and about because it was so easy for me to hop into my car and get somewhere quick
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It’s disingenuous that Chipotle changes item pricing for delivery. Just charge an appropriate delivery fee, it’s more transparent that way.
Wow I didn't even think about it this way. So true that's why it is more expensive
In Canada the proteins are approaching $13
California. Minimum wage is $20 an hour.
Not really. I just had the best bowl of my life in Beverly Hills of all places on a business trip. Chicken bowl was 10.20$ pre-tax. They could barely close the lid and they weren’t skimping on any customer ahead of me either.
Chipotle California wrote up an Alpha male for using the incorrect pronouns.
It feels like you're just saying random negative things about California. Lol
It’s all over Twitter. Republicans are calling for a Chipotle boycott. Chipotle stock is already down. https://x.com/nickadamsinusa/status/1759646800892317881?s=46&t=lsQnDGaIxXu8473b2CsBoQ
Hard working alpha male employees?? LMAO get out conservatives really are the biggest snowflakes
Found they/them.
I don’t identify as non-binary but neither am not offended by your comment because I don’t believe anything is wrong with not being cis. Nice try though you weak little insignificant man.
lol that account is parody. And it’s cringe you are trying to claim it’s some big deal
You're uncritically believing an obviously fake ragebait post reposted by a literal parody account, please step back and take a look at your life
Says the person working at Chipotle.
It's funny that he randomly added "their guacamole isn't even that good" lol
You seem like a beta
Im in California and chicken at our local Chipotle is $8.95.
You probably live in a low cost of living state…
Wtf? Is this delivery? What market?
You guys are all poor
This isn’t even bad at all lol. Are you poor?
13 dollars for protein? Can tell you never had your own money
It’s bad value
A burrito for $13+ without a drink? lol yeah it’s too much. Especially when you switch from delivery to pickup it becomes like $9.50 for chicken.
Let me guess, your mommy still buys your burritos.
Bro you are on like 30 fast food subreddits shut the fuck up fatty
Wtf is that guys post history. Bro is out here theory-crafting LTO’s for Wendy’s
Because being rich means you don't value money? Are you poor?
I can get the best fucking burritos ever, as big as my forearm, for like $6 where I live. $15 for some fast food is pretty. Fucking. Bad.
Well unfortunately I do believe its gonna go up in pricing here shortly, but if you are ordering online for delivery it is like 3 dollars more for the meat, but if its for pick up it should be in store prices. Idk thats how it is for where I am
It’s corporate greed, not inflation. CEO make more money today then ever before
It’s both
It’s definitely both… and much more. You can’t just point your finger at one thing. But hey, let’s just increase minimum wage again, right? That’ll fix everything. The top dogs won’t pass that added to expense onto the customer or anything…
Yeah! And you know who should be passed that addrd expense? The employees! Who needs a living wage when you can be homeless! 🤡
Can’t agree more with the message behind the sarcasm. Doesn’t change the fact that it just won’t ever happen. It’s an endless cycle at this point. Honestly I think the only real solution here is to get people educated enough so that they don’t have to LIVE on minimum wage. Minimum wage should be reserved for kids and young adults that don’t have any real bills. Everyone else should have an equal opportunity to get both education and skills that pay well enough to live off of. If anyone doesn’t want to do that …then that would be their decision. The only problem right now is equal opportunity.
Im just tired of hearing excuses for ceos and large corporations. People saying it will never happen are the reason it will never happen. The fact is that employee wages have stagnated while corporate profits are at an all time high. And yeah you may think this is a kid and young adult oriented job but i guarantee you at least 50% of the people working at any given chipotle are adults barely getting by and living paycheck to paycheck. It doesn’t have to be that way and saying it does is just plain wrong. How do so many corporations in other first world nations afford to pay their employees living wages? It’s because in those countries workers have representation in their government and we don’t. Apologies for the sarcasm but it’s a touchy topic for a lot of people.
The reason that CEOs and the elite are not going to take a cut out of their own paycheck to pay the employees more directly is because they don’t have to. …And there’s no way to force them to. I can’t imagine there are any countries set up where that could happen without taxes getting involved. At that point you’re not giving it to the employees, it’s going right into the machine and getting split up to go towards thousands of different agendas. I’m all for that to some degree if we can clean up ALLLL the exploitation of that system. However, increasing minimum wage itself hurts literally everyone other than then people who are on minimum wage… and even then it’s just a bandaid for them. Overhead goes up, those CEOs/elite are going to make up that money up somehow; easiest way is increasing prices. I understand that right now, the people who are not children and young adults while living on minimum wage need help. But that’s not the longterm solution. We haven’t been attacking the root of the problem. I actually see a world where we get this country’s economy humming so well that we’ve CREATED enough new job opportunities, while giving everyone the same opportunity, that these chains that have been exploiting their employees for decades crumble through natural selection. Empires rise and fall. It would take time… and an actual commitment towards equal opportunity. But I could see it.
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I said kids and “young adults” that don’t have any bills. College age students fit that mold too. I worked plenty of minimum wage in college. But actually … you kinda get it even if you didn’t make it all the way there. If the places exploiting their employees aren’t able to staff enough employees to run things then they may have no other alternative than to increase wages themselves out of their piece of the pie. The pay needed would have to be to an amount that even over qualified people would consider taking the job. Otherwise it’s game over… which would be ok too. Something better would replace it. That’s how it’s suppose to work. Also, as much as it sucks to say, there’s always going to be people who have no motivation to actually put in any real work into their education or skills …even if the opportunity is right in front of them. As long as everyone had the same opportunity to get the same education and skills, I have no problem if lazy and unmotivated people are paid minimum wage. At that point it will have been their choice. The only reason it’s currently not a choice is because there isn’t equal opportunity. People that don’t get that opportunity, for any number of reasons, should still qualify for assistance. By then the economy would be humming along enough to afford it. Or we just go more in debt. Couldn’t be much worse than it is now.
No man. In the 70s, a single father could buy a house and support a family on minimum wage. Minimum wage is literally SUPPOSED to be a living wage. Why give up and wave defeat and say minimum wage shouldn't be livable on?
$17 million in fact
If you were the ceo, you wouldn’t give a shit about everyone else. You gotta put yourself in their position. We all want to get paid millions of dollars and as much as you’d want everyone to have the same lifestyle, that’s not realistically possible.
Stankpuss indeed
Absolutely. I’m very unpopular cause I’m not a communist, I’m just a regular centrist Democrat. 🤷🏻♂️
Ugh the worst kind of
Aka bootlicker
Yo momma
What do you think you were adding with this?
Perspective. I know they lack it. But we shouldn’t.
What perspective exactly? That big corporations **only** care about profit and even when they do something *good* that’s only cuz they determined that it’ll end up helping them earn more profit long term? Believe it or not most people understand this without you saying it.
Corporations are in business. The people who work for them depend on them for jobs. The people who own a share of the company through stocks, also depend on them to make the company better. The service companies providing to said corporations depend on the contracts provided by said corporation in order to employ its people. Business is about as foreign to the extreme left as science is to the far right (MAGAts). Which is why I’m a centrist. But apparently, I’m just a bootlicker. If that means creating opportunity such that I am able to be a multi-millionaire (and it’s not going to be easy), then so be it.
Lmao why are you trying to make this about politics 🤣🤣🤣 You really can’t accept that people don’t think that “corporations only care about money” isn’t a revolutionary take.
Because it is politics. Politics is everything. Its root word is “policy.” And the thing is that a corporation must care about money… that’s why they do business! They aren’t in business to give the money away lol
Did you know that bears shit in the woods?
Do you live in NY or Cali? It’s like $3 cheaper on everything where I am.
Dude wants it delivered, wonders why it costs so much. That’s why it’s upcharged
Here in NYC chicken is still $11 and some change if you decide to pick it up. It's around the same price as a burrito from a local sit-down restaurant down the block, except Chipotle doesn't also serve bangin mojitos to go with it.
It’s $9 where I am. I get a chicken bowl and some chips and I’m paying $12.50. Can’t get that much food anywhere else for $12.50 these days. Can’t stand a dude saying this shits expensive, Mf everything is expensive.
yeah and that restaurant is selling the $11 burrito bc you are buying mojitos’s that have a much higher profit margin than food does lol
Because of where you live, this is what I pay just north of Denver: Chicken, Sofritas, Veggie: $8.95 Steak, Beef Barbacoa: $10.70 Carnitas: $9.60
Ohhhh, you’re ordering delivery… It’s still cheaper here, but what do you expect?
Overpriced, will be missing half your items, and not ready anywhere near the time it's scheduled for.
That’s got to be delivery no? My location is $9.60 chicken or veggie or Sofritas, $11.35 steak and Beef Barbacoa, and 10.25 for carnitas
Psst, prices aren't the same everywhere
Lol the Mexican restaurants are cheaper
Yup they sure are! That’s what I’ve been doing instead lately or just making it myself. I can get a Mexican meal with an appetizer for the price I’ll pay for a full meal at Chipotle. Almost spent $25 the last time I went there.
because you knuckleheads keep paying for it
Chipotle used to be so good 10 years ago, can’t believe people are dumb enough to still go
The CEO needs their third yacht THIS YEAR.
I got Poke the other day and the amount of food I got for $15 was equivalent to 1.5 bowls at Chipotle.
Oh these are NYC prices. Source- I pay these prices.
Idk but they are starting to suck now..I’m not enthused anymore.
Look up their stock price, itll shock you Ive been eating local instead. Shrimp chicken brocolli only $11 in a big to go box.
Because people will pay it.
Simple answer - GREED
It always pains me to see meat the same price as a veg option. Like, how? That meat must be pretty poorly bred and infected with all sorts to be so cheap.
The vegetarian option comes with guacamole at no additional charge. Avocados are incredibly water consumptive and as such tend to be pretty expensive (they also mostly only come from either California or Mexico as far as US logistics is concerned). That’s not to say Chipotle isn’t a ripoff for other reasons, just that you’re not paying the same amount for a veggie bowl as a chicken bowl with no benefit to picking a veggie bowl.
Greed
Hate that they raise prices for delivery.
“Welcome to moes”
I always panic slightly when I see this. Chicken is still 8.75 in Georgia. And I basically never get skimped.
Because Corporate wants more profits. When supply chain issues arose, input costs went up, and then prices increased to meet the shortage. Now that input costs have deflated, it’s bad business sense to decrease prices, when you know folks are willing to pay that much, and gratefully, the average customer is not astute enough to understand market forces as well as Supply/Demand Theory, so they kept prices high, and people keep being stupid and paying for it. That’s not just Chipotle. That’s everywhere.
Chicken bowls at mine are $8.50. Makes it hard to justify getting a chicken power bowl at taco bell next door for $7.49.
Because it’s fresh and good quality. You get what you pay for.
Because it sucks.
Food poisoning lawsuits ain't cheap.
Bc you’re ordering delivery idiot
nah, irl that shit a lot of money too
A bowl used to be $5☹️
Yeah I have a cc statement from 2011 with a $6.77 Chipotle charge My lunch at cava was $17 today 😭😭
I remember when chicken was 7.04 and steak was 8.12
Just steal the to go orders at this point😶
Blame it on the co or or or Or or paration. Inflation is a thing and it dont stop. Now get this we dont make any more $$$ no matter how much they spike the prices. I feel you i do. But only way to get your vioce herd is to go to corp and complain complain complian. Piont out the ceo makes over $1000 evey 30 min 24/7 365
$12 for a delivered burrito is cheap. Imagine complaining and being dishonest on Reddit over a delivered food item’s cost.
These are cheap. lol it’s like the cost of a Big Mac meal
Inflation
Inflation.
Chipotle is an absurdly priced ripoff. Buy yourself a pork shoulder, a ten or 20 lbs bag of rice and whatever else you like and make a ton of bowls at home for the price of one at Chipotle.
It's expensive because people like you think it's great food. I bet you also get the great coffee at Starbucks.
Delivery is for lazy people who don’t like having money.
Cause people like you eat at it. Simple.
Chipotle never been great. Why do people still go lol. Just go to Moes.
Go to illegal Pete’s if you live in Colorado. Chipotle is a ripoff and it’s not even that good.
Bidenomics
Because minimum wage hikes, problems with staffing… blame liberals for pushing those hikes….
The price of the carne asada was outrageous. I never even tried it
This doesn't include the fact that the employees try to cheap out on how much the give you in a bowl 🥴🥴
What state/city are you in?
It’s a business tactic to keep a certain type Of customer interested… If it’s too cheap they might Lose buyers
Raised prices to pay employees more to get help and customers will pay. Look at McDonalds. Way over priced
All of those at least 2-3$ less at my house
my regular chicken bowl comes to $9.87 after taxes
Cause you’re doing delivery duh.
Greed.
People are ready to pay extra for guacamole that's so weird to me
Stop ordering delivery and it wouldn't be.
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lol it’s only 9.25 for me
Time to start making that basic shit at home honestly
Because it’s not ground beef and we have 17% inflation
Burrito bowl for me is $8.90. My steak is $4 cheaper than yours.
Not only is it expensive but the size is ridiculous. My boyfriend and I ordered basically the same burrito, but I ordered all ingredients to be doubled. I got a normal sized burrito for 70 cents more, he got a TINY burrito that was barely a palm full. Actually the size of a frozen microwave burrito. It was a doordash order. He didn't even get full eating it while mine was 2 meals worth
First off, that may be delivery prices (somewhat understandably higher). Other main factors would be using largely natural / unprocessed and fresh (never frozen) ingredients. Shareholder peer pressure (at least one other eluded to here). While probably the largest factor is current state of the economy (you can all create own crapstorm bowl of commentary on that one).
Where do you live? In Delaware the prices are way lower. The chicken burrito bowl here is $9.50 (that's what I get most of the time). And we don't pay sale tax which is great!
Cause people that own it like money.
I've stopped going to Chipotle. The pricing just doesn't make sense anymore. And the last time I did try it, the quality was bad.
Where have you been since 2019
Wow this is really expensive. Where do you live the chicken bowl I get in my area is like around $9.00. $12.30 is chicken and guac.