Another replacement of a founder with a body from the random CEO pool. Knowledge between companies is almost 0% transferrable.
Chipotle Taps Taco Bell CEO to Be Its New Head
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Re: Chipotle Taps Taco Bell CEO to Be Its New Head
#32I have been to Taco Bell only twice and I found the "food" they are selling basically inedible. Definitely wouldn't hire that CEO.
Re: Chipotle Taps Taco Bell CEO to Be Its New Head
#33Let’s see what he can do with a $10 lunch business model.
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
McDonald's did indeed help Chipotle get their logistical systems in order. CMG and MCD still share some common suppliers. One area where Chipotle resisted McD's advice was in automating their kitchen systems. One example was the steak. CMG believed hand-marinating and grilling their steaks in-store was a core feature that couldn't be changed. It's also a highly risky procedure when it comes to food safety and cross-c…
2019 = Order via speech recognition 2020 = Automated kitchen systems prepare ingredients 2021 = Burrito preparation via robotics 2021 = End-to-end order fulfillment without human involvement Just a matter of time before raw ingredients are lab grown and harvested by robots. Not too long ago, this was pure fantasy. Only now is it starting to look inevitable, for better or for worse.
There is a small chance that we will see something like Star Trek food replicators in our lifetime.
Re: Chipotle Taps Taco Bell CEO to Be Its New Head
#35Step 1: Reduce food quality to cut costs Step 2: Come out with stupid names of rehashed food ideas Step 3: Spend all new profits from low-quality food ideas on HEAVY MARKETING of newer, lower-quality food ideas Step 4: If (Chipotle != Taco Bell) Go to 2 Step 5: Exit
Revisit this post in a year, and I'd not be surprised to see that it was correct. Turn Chipotle into an upscale version of Taco Bell and market the pants off of crappy food and sit back and watch profits grow. Chipotle can't really compete with restaurants that actually serve good food, so why not fill the giant divide between them and Taco Bell?
>Turn Chipotle into an upscale version of Taco Bell
Taco Bell tried this in the 90s near where I lived at the time (it was called Border Bell) and it never really caught on and closed not too long after it opened.
Re: Chipotle Taps Taco Bell CEO to Be Its New Head
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
McDonald's did indeed help Chipotle get their logistical systems in order. CMG and MCD still share some common suppliers. One area where Chipotle resisted McD's advice was in automating their kitchen systems. One example was the steak. CMG believed hand-marinating and grilling their steaks in-store was a core feature that couldn't be changed. It's also a highly risky procedure when it comes to food safety and cross-c…
Why is it so hard for a fast food chain to avoid cross-contamination vs. other restaurants? Is it because they don't train workers properly?
That might be part of it. Plenty of other restaurants need (at the least) experienced cooks who probably would have gotten bounced out if they couldn't keep food safety more or less in order.
A lot of it, I would guess, is simple scale. There's like 800 more Chipotle restaurants than Chili's, and I'd be damn sure the volume of meals coming out of each one is skewed far towards Chipotle as well.
Re: Chipotle Taps Taco Bell CEO to Be Its New Head
#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
McDonald's did indeed help Chipotle get their logistical systems in order. CMG and MCD still share some common suppliers. One area where Chipotle resisted McD's advice was in automating their kitchen systems. One example was the steak. CMG believed hand-marinating and grilling their steaks in-store was a core feature that couldn't be changed. It's also a highly risky procedure when it comes to food safety and cross-c…
2019 = Order via speech recognition 2020 = Automated kitchen systems prepare ingredients 2021 = Burrito preparation via robotics 2021 = End-to-end order fulfillment without human involvement Just a matter of time before raw ingredients are lab grown and harvested by robots. Not too long ago, this was pure fantasy. Only now is it starting to look inevitable, for better or for worse.
Voice based ordering is already available through Alexa and their iPhone app, cmg just behind the times
Re: Chipotle Taps Taco Bell CEO to Be Its New Head
#38Another replacement of a founder with a body from the random CEO pool. Knowledge between companies is almost 0% transferrable.
Taco Bell and Chipotle seem pretty similar. Not only are they massive chains of physical locations that would have very similar issues. They are also selling similar food. Mission burritos and Tex Mex (regardless of quality and authenticity) are almost all the same ingredients.
Re: Chipotle Taps Taco Bell CEO to Be Its New Head
#39Re: Chipotle Taps Taco Bell CEO to Be Its New Head
#40Earlier quoted context omitted.
>> Taco Bell famously repackages >> list of what you can work with in a Chipotle is short, very short That's not specific to Taco Bell or Chipotle. That's called Mexican food.
It really isn’t. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexican_cuisine
Reminds me of an old friend. We invited him and his wife out for a nice Italian dinner, and he said "Sorry, I just don't like Italian food. It's nothing but cheese and red sauce!"