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Chipotle says its employees can choose chicken once again. Last week, the chain asked its U.S. and Canadian employees to temporarily select another protein for their work meals to preserve the company's supply of chicken.

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... "We are not experiencing outages of chicken in our restaurants," Schalow said in a statement. "Last week we temporarily asked employees to select non-chicken options for their employee meals to maintain supply for our guests based on our strong sales, but employees are now free to select chicken in their meals as normal." ...

#1 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-26 12:13 AM | Reply

Wait, if Chipolte is "not experiencing outages of chicken in our restaurants" then why issue the directive to employees to "select non-chicken options for their employee meals to maintain supply for our guests."

Was there an issue with the supply of chicken? Or not?

#2 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-26 12:16 AM | Reply

OK, this looks like there may be more to this...

Chipotle reverses policy, says workers can order chicken again
www.newsnationnow.com

... Popular burrito and bowl chain Chipotle has reversed course and says employees can now order chicken once again after Bloomberg reported that workers had been told to skip the protein amid surging customer demand.

In a company email sent to employees last week, workers were told not to add chicken to their personal meals to preserve the supply for customers, according to Bloomberg.

Store managers were reportedly told not to order their work meals with chicken or Chicken al Pastor and to ask other staff to do the same. ...


#3 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-26 12:20 AM | Reply

@#3 ... told not to add chicken to their personal meals to preserve the supply for customers, according to Bloomberg. ...

Chipotle Tells Staff to Skip Eating Chicken, Then Relents
finance.yahoo.com

... Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. told its employees last week not to include chicken in their own meals, as surging customer demand crimped supply -- but the chain now says its workers can go back to ordering freely. ...

Store managers were told not to order their free or discounted employee meals with chicken or chicken al pastor, and to ask their team members to do the same. The email also instructed white-collar staff at Chipotle offices that they "should not" order chicken for themselves and said the popular option wouldn't be included in their free Monday lunches. ...



#4 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-26 12:24 AM | Reply

My main question through of of this...

Is Chipotle unable to manage its supply change properly?


#5 | Posted by LampLighter at 2024-04-26 12:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Their chickens are coming home to roost.

P.S. Bird flu

#6 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2024-04-26 02:30 AM | Reply | Funny: 1

Was there an issue with the supply of chicken? Or not?

More than likely there was an appearance of an issue, someone overreacted in corporate, the employees were outraged so now they backtrack and hope it all blows over.

#7 | Posted by Nixon at 2024-04-26 08:32 AM | Reply

"Is Chipotle unable to manage its supply change properly?"

How is Chipotle supposed to manage this?

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#8 | Posted by snoofy at 2024-04-26 10:01 AM | Reply

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