I know this gets said here and there but it needs to be said more. When you gamble your life's savings, you will eventually lose. This isn't investing, it's gambling. You may get a few small wins here and there but ultimately you will end up around zero.

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Sounds like someone's making a play.

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Can you elaborate on why it’s so expensive? Is it really corporate greed? I can go to a sit down restaurant that’s kind of up scale for the same price as chipotle. Chipotle sells burritos, which are literally not upscale. The math don’t math brother

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Just drive the extra 5 miles to a different store. So… calls on MPC.

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Wait, it's been over a year since I had Chipotle, are the burritos actually smaller now? If I got one and it wasn't this enormous throbbing thing bursting from it's tortilla I'd lose my shit

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Mine must be location specific. Like I said you cnat even order in store here most of the time unfortunately. Totally agree on the five guys and panera. Family of four at five guys is almost 80 dollars and panera just got rid of everything my kids liked plus not cheap either for what you're getting, on top of sip club increase. I think panera is probably the biggest fail out of most of them lately. So can't go there anymore. Cava has been great though. I sold some puts a few times and have another for after earnings but it keeps going up so I haven't been given the stock yet.

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If you make a Ven diagram of the rich suburban white girl index and the bro-science neckbeard index and your company's strategy lands in the overlapping section, just take my money you win

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It's a shifty burrito company that's had 2 norovirus outbreaks, 2 e coli outbreaks, and 1 salmonella outbreak which resulted in 1100 getting sick within a 3 year period (2015-18) It's interesting to note that Jack in the box almost went bankrupt after one e coli outbreak in 1993 that got 700 people sick. Though children died from that so that increased the impact of the issue. I wonder what it will take for the Chipotle's valuation to be brought back from absurd levels.

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Haven’t had the same experience anywhere honestly. I would say in general not staffed appropriately. Firm believer that going in and getting your food vs mobile order is night and day different. I’ve asked for extra rice or cheese or such and never had anyone complain. Are the amenities and overall production as good as it used to be? Hell nah. But food still tastes good and hasn’t gone up like many many other quick casual places. Panera and 5 guys is about the worst the last 5 years for me. Panera cost and quality and 5 guys cost. Chipotle has always given me a high floor and ceiling for flavor / price. I think a ton of their complaints is from mobile orders. Not a boomer but if you see the mobile order prep - yes it’s a different work station - they don’t GAF about the food. With a customer in there watching their food get made it’s different. No food tastes good being made in a hurried rush to sit on a shelf for a dasher to pick up and spend another 30 minutes before you get it.

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Their new business is just burritos with salsa, lettuce, and a scrap of meat.

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