Chipotle Mexican Grill

Smells so good while making...ty. to add to my review. The counter help was very rude to a doordasher. Doordashers help keep your business going... respect them. They don't get paid by the hour...they get paid by the order. Keep that in mind.. if you can't handle the job..find a new one. CUSTOMER SERVICE IS NUMBER ONE.

Excellent fresh, affordable food. Sadly, the guy at the register was not a recent graduate of the Friendly Service Academy...oh well. Can't win them all, right? My burrito was huge and way too much to eat. Pork at Chipotle is totally delicious! Would recommend Chipotle on Menaul to all our friends and family in Albuquerque.

0/5 stars. I don’t know how people eat here, I ordered a burrito with chicken, sour cream, cheese and some other things, which tasted pretty good, but that’s not the reason that I am here. The hot sauce dropped onto my hand and burned my chapped knuckles! I also have a cut on my hand and the hot sauce got into my cut and it burns so bad! Ridiculous! I’ve been here before and have never had this problem until meow. I shall never again eat here today. Maybe tomorrow, we’ll see.

We had a great experience here. There was a line and even so, the workers were quick, polite, and had smiles. That’s all you can ask for with a fast-food place. Our food was delicious, not burnt, and ultimately no problems. I feel that if you are watching them in front of you scoop food for you, you should be able to see if there is a problem or not, and if there is, just simply ask for non-problematic food. I’ve had things burnt at other places and I asked for a replacement and that was easy peasy. Not really worth low starring the location. Accidents happen. Anyhow, in short, food was FAST AND GREAT! 🙌🏽 thank you!

This place does not skimp you're just ordering wrong. Very consistent location. Never been disappointed. Some chipotle history: Founder Steve Ells attended the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, New York. Afterward, he became a line cook for Jeremiah Tower at Stars in San Francisco. There, Ells observed the popularity of the taquerías and San Francisco burritos in the Mission District. In 1993, Ells took what he learned in San Francisco and opened the first Chipotle Mexican Grill in Denver, Colorado, in a former Dolly Madison Ice Cream store at 1644 East Evans Avenue, near the University of Denver campus, using an $85,000 loan from his father. Ells and his father calculated that the store would need to sell 107 burritos per day to be profitable. After one month, the original restaurant was selling over 1,000 burritos a day. The second store opened in 1995 using Chipotle's cash flow, and the third was opened using an SBA loan. To fund more growth, Ells' father invested $1.5 million. Afterwards, Ells created a board of directors and business plan, raising an additional $1.8 million for the company. Ells had originally planned to use funds from the first Chipotle to open a fine-dining restaurant, but instead focused on Chipotle Mexican Grill when the restaurants saw success. In 1998, the first restaurant outside of Colorado opened in Kansas City, Missouri. The company opened its first location in Minnesota by opening near the campus of the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis in March 1999. In 1998, McDonald's made an initial minority investment in the company. By 2001, the company had grown to be Chipotle's largest investor. The investment from McDonald's allowed the firm to quickly expand, from 16 restaurants in 1998 to over 500 by 2005. On January 26, 2006, Chipotle made its initial public offering (IPO) after increasing the share price twice due to high pre-IPO demand. In its first day as a public company, the stock rose exactly 100%, resulting in the best U.S.-based IPO in six years, and the second-best IPO for a restaurant after Boston Market. The money from the offering was then used to fund new store growth. In March 2005, Monty Moran was appointed president and chief operating officer of Chipotle while Ells remained chairman and CEO. In October 2006, McDonald's fully divested from Chipotle. This was part of a larger initiative for McDonald's to divest all of its non-core business restaurants — Chipotle, Donatos Pizza, and Boston Market — so that it could focus on the main McDonald's chain. McDonald's had invested approximately $360 million into Chipotle, and took out $1.5 billion. McDonald's had attempted to get Chipotle to add drive-through windows and a breakfast menu, which Ells resisted. In 2008, Chipotle opened its first location outside of the United States in Toronto. In January 2009, president and chief operating officer Monty Moran was promoted to co-CEO, a position that he would share with Ells, while Moran retained his president position. In a list of fastest-growing restaurant chains in 2009, Chipotle was ranked eighth, based on increases in U.S. sales over the past year, and in 2010 Chipotle was ranked third. Consumer Reports ranked Chipotle as the best Mexican fast-food chain in 2011.The company serves approximately 750,000 customers per day. In December 2010, Chipotle hired chef Nate Appleman to develop new cuisine. Appleman has won Rising Star Chef from the James Beard Foundation, was named "Best New Chef" by the Food & Wine magazine, and competed on The Next Iron Chef.