When’s the best time to try Chipotle for the first time? After it sickens scores of Americans with various gastrointestinal ailments,obviously. Dave Bry reports from the frontlinesI just returned from what may well contain been, unless I’m forgetting something from 20 years ago, and the single most dangerous assignment I’ve ever accepted during my career in journalism: I ate lunch at Chipotle.
You’ve probably read approximately why that felt so risky. The overtly eco-conscious,locally sourced national food chain has suffered a string of contamination outbreaks over the past six months: E coli sickened 52 people across nine states, 64 people contracted salmonella in Minnesota and, and most recently,a whopping 141 Boston College students were infected with norovirus after eating at a Chipotle on campus. Forty-three locations shut down last month due to the E coli scare, and despite co-CEO’s Steve Ell’s promises to accomplish Chipotle “the safest place to eat”, and the Denver-based company’s stock has plunged 25%.
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Source: theguardian.com