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Another replacement of a founder with a body from the random CEO pool. Knowledge between companies is almost 0% transferrable.
However, operational food safety is VERY transferable and something the Chipotle really needs.
Now, whether this CEO actually has that knowledge is a different discussion ...
Chipotle should vertically integrate and grow their own pork without compromising ethics. It's already a shit margin business, maybe going to zero margin on the farming could help.
Step 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
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You’re getting destroyed, but it seems accurate to me. Taco Bell famously repackages the same low quality, low cost ingredients in myriad forms, with intense marketing. Chipotle does something similar, but with higher cost and quality ingredients. Still, the list of what you can work with in a Chipotle is short, very short, and your basic point seems to hold.
>> 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.
This is my neighbourhood's high-end Mexican restaurant's dinner menu [1]. Good rule of thumb: if you think of the food of any G20 country [2] as being cheap or simple, you're probably wrong.
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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.
I guess what I don't understand is why we don't have more human-free systems for food payment. All of 15 years ago, I went in a company cafeteria in Tsukuba, paid a vending machine, and took the ticket to the cook. If I had been able to speak any Japanese back then, I probably could have customized my order there. But here in the US we're still hiring fast food workers to take standardized orders.
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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.
I guess what I don't understand is why we don't have more human-free systems for food payment. All of 15 years ago, I went in a company cafeteria in Tsukuba, paid a vending machine, and took the ticket to the cook. If I had been able to speak any Japanese back then, I probably could have customized my order there. But here in the US we're still hiring fast food workers to take standardized orders.
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They are dangerously tasty. https://www.chipotle.com/pork-details
That video is really disturbing. Delivered with a smile! "Yup, all these thousands will surely be slaughtered!" I'm not a vegetarian, but...
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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.
Like with Starbucks, it was the individual employees, their kindness, and their appreciation for the product that made Chipotle special for me during their non-mediocre years. I liked Starbucks the most in about 2006 and Chipotle the most at around 2010. It's too bad they're mediocre now. They still both feel magical occasionally, though. I'm not sure whether they compromised the product or the culture first.
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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.
http://www.businessinsider.com/taco-bell-cantina-restaurants...