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Chipotle's Suss Portions Are Finally Put To The Test

#chipotle#burrito#portion#guac#pandaexpress
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0:00 [Music] what do you guys think about the debate about Chipotle portion sizes you think it's legit what is it what's it the bate they're saying that they've been skimping oh yeah portions dude my brother used to work there when they first started the burritos used to be like extra fat you got a bowl there was so much chicken in it and then like after like 3 years like you can see them take the scoop and they start doing that thing so it kind of Wiggles off like they're shaking it out they put it on yeah I I honestly I do not like Chipotle anymore I also got really sick when they had that outbreak so have you guys SE like eoli ████ going on that's off the lettuce right have you guys seen the um was it the Chipotle phone challenge or something yeah where like where if you like film them like oh yo can you make my burrito and since they see you

0:50 filming them they put more yeah they hook you up ████ fat and that guess that's the loophole is to like film them every single time yeah but then they but then everybody in line just like workers started getting sick of it and like like being like hey what the ████ and not really doing what what Bart saying over time we don't know I don't know there's been a lot of information but but there's a guy who works for Wells Fargo he's an analyst he ordered the same Chipotle bitable 75 times and found that the portion problem is legit as in like weighted every time so it's gotten smaller and smaller it's inconsistent M right so he says that he Stu studied um burrito bowls at eight different Chipotle locations in New York City with half the orders placed digitally the other half in person and throughout the study the analyst found the Bowl's

1:40 weights were wildly inconsistent the medium bowl or the median Bowl right out of the average ordered online and in person weighed about the same but the weight of the breedables varied drastically in each category for iners orders the heaviest ball weighed 47% more than the lightest bow that's a huge yeah yeah that's almost double but that's what they were saying right if you order online they're less likely to hook you up and they'll charge you so much to get that weight up to the higher one too if you have the lighter bolt oh really like for the ex yeah yeah yeah so the weight varied even more for digital orders right with the heaviest Bowl weighting weighing 87% more than the lightest Bowl so they they ████ you there that's that's how they ████ you it sucks too anyway you think it is you think the boss or the CEO is just like hey uh we're not making much it's not

2:30 making sense with a portion to you know what I mean when you become a publicly traded company It all becomes about how you can add to shareholder value and that means cutting cost as much as you possibly can I mean you notice that McDonald's never used to conveniently forget to put ketchup in and then when and then you're like oh I I I like some ketchup please they're like sure and then they'll ████ bring two packets or they'll ask you how many packets do you want I'm like what happened to the hand yeah and and they still they still cut that ████ in half most of the time yeah and they they know you'll feel awkward can I get like 20 catchup packets they like what the ████ no I just be like that's not enough I got like Del Taco the other day I'm all like I like a lot of mild sauce right and then their idea of a lot is four packets of mild sauce for ████

3:21 quesadilla three tacos a burrito and a chicken soft taco come on dude come on four that's not even that's more than four items that's personal this much sauce in each packet yeah so then when I look at it I'm like I'm going to need more than that and then they'll go trick and I'm I need way more than that I'll just stay there until they fill up the bag dude do you you ever go to Panda Express they ████ you so good there man you're like cuz I like that I like that Thai what's that the the red sauce the chili sauce the sweet and sour no no I like the the spicy one oh the sweet chili garlic something right a sweet roll but it's good and the same ████ like can I get that one and they put one packet in you're like ████ you yeah come on dude you know what I like about in- and out if you ask for the if you ask for spread you could be like five like boom here you go dude they

4:11 fill a whole bag with it it covers your whole food border yeah yo but can I say this you go to the hood anywhere you go to the hood Chipotle Panda you going to get what you want really portion wise really they hook it up hell yeah I went to a like South Central freaking Panda Express and the guys were just like not wanted to be there and you're just like yo what up bro oh they're trying to ████ the the owner no they don't care they they're just there to make the money they don't care about the whatever corporate saying like it's not my food boom and I'm just like hell yeah bro he's like ████ got you that's it was just that what the ████ was it good strategy no they they that is the problem with band Express I think that I that I I just don't go back I don't go back no no you got to go to like the knockoff like it's not Panda Express

5:02 it'll be like China Express it'll be like okay they feel that they lovee they pile that ████ up it's almost too much I don't think that can close no that just happen I ordered some Chinese food on door Dash and it was like six lbs full of just rice I like oh my PO Mom and Pops that's like holy ████ they packed that ████ on man I'm like it's when you like close the lid and they got ████ dangling ass child man on the side yeah that's the best man okay Chinese food that's the one van no it's called okay Chinese everywhere too yeah I think there's one like in um by South pass that I've seen they everywhere and then they cut the the ████ lid so then it doesn't mess up all the fried ████ and it keeps it crispy yeah cuz it bents it out huh damn watch so word on

5:52 the street word on the street is that chipotle CEO Brian nickel told told Fortune Magazine portions are not small but added but your eyes are but he added that customers could give employees quote a look if they want to bulk up their burritos interesting what the ████ does thatan this that's the look Yeah Yeahs aren't smaller remember they used to roll up the burrito where it's so fat you're like dude this tortilla can't even hold everything in here it was more wide than it was long and it's like to me I don't even feel like it's gotten better quality I think the quality's gotten worse so for them to less and the portion on it like I said my brother worked there right when they open and it was really good I just like trash I got a bowl and a drink there one time it was like $25 yeah it's crazy now I like whate half the time when I go they don't

6:42 have avocado anymore they're like sorry we're out of guac already and I'm like dude that's cuz there's just one poor son of a ████ working here and he he's too strapped to do anything cutting avocados yeah remember it was like hey I would like some guac and then they go and you're like can I have some more and then they go and that's like 19 by itself you're like God damn yeah I remember the first price went out like like 22 and I was like yo can you just take off the chips and the guac then they're like oh you didn't order that and I was like Jesus that just a play by itself that's not to get your it's expensive now have you guys seen those guys that like try to gamify it where they're like as they're scooping it they're like actually can I do a a half pause or like a pause they call it like a pause double or something what's that mean well they're like as they're scooping it they'll be like let me get a portion of chicken and then like as they're scooping it they're like actually can I get some beef too and then so that means they get almost a

7:32 full order a full scoop of it and like actually make it a double so like they'll just keep adding stuff as after they've added you kind of chip it to like almost three scoops or something oh sh and I think that's what started all this cuz it got viral on Tik Tok and then people started doing it and then they go you know what ████ this let's just jip everybody and they started doing this ████ too on Tik Tok where they're like doing food hack ████ so they're like hey order a tortilla on the side which is free yeah right to make a taco right to make yeah to make a burrito oh wait that's free to make a burrito yeah you get a tortilla on the side and then you order like whatever the everything separately or some ████ or all of it separately and then you just dump all of it in and fold it up and that's true cuz like I'll get the quesadilla and then you have to get like rice and beans cuz it has to be a kids meal too there you go sometimes I've been just doing that cuz it's almost just as much food as the freaking bowl

8:22 or a burrito but you wouldn't do it to a mom and pop shop you know what I mean it's just one of those CEO spots yeah well ho so corporate now it used to be a spot in San Diego that like was popular and then it blew up into what it is now I haven't ate that ████ in years though you make that ████ at the house bro worth it it's not that good anymore Trader Joe's you can spend what 30 bucks and you could make yourself seven chipot you know what the move is you go to a local like Vara or something you buy the carada already pre-marinated for like $8 a pound or whatever you get that they already have the pre-made salsa and the guac you cook your own rice at home you're dunzo dude true fact damn I'm I'm might have to do that that's that's the way to go any meican restaurant any Mexican and then you eat something that is horrible mhm and I'm like why did I pay for this yeah that's kind of

9:12 Chipotle bro Chipotle that's Chipotle I'm like how do you ruin salad and how do you make a burrito Bland so Bland that I'm like I could ████ do better well it's so Bland that they're like here's like they have 17 bottles of Tasco sauce in every store cuz they know it's bland do you think do you think they got blander or you think we just got used to the FL I think it got worse I think the quality went down and everything us bgie you think so the chicken used to have flavor it used to be juicy it used to have flavor that part yeah it's all like a dry I think they use cheaper cuts of me I think they do for sure and I think they cut the pieces smaller too from what I remember back in the day it used to be like big chunks of chicken and then now it's like those little like little squares that they cut it into so hard man hey man they got me I got that was the probably one of the sickest I've

10:02 ever been when I got sick off Chipotle I like I blacked out and I woke up the next morning and didn't realize that I threw up all in the bathroom I fell asleep on my floor in my room it was it was so bad I was sick for like a whole week I haven't seen a Chipotle in ages though good thing they chipped in the portion Siz you thrown up more that's too I was still hungry after I ate that ████ too dog like God damn let me see do they still have that one down the street here hell hungry oh po I'm starving there's one at bar though

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