A recent outbreak of Hepatitis A in the San Diego area has been linked to...guess who?...Chipotle Mexican Grill. That's right, everyone's favorite McMexican food restaurant is killing our livers like it's 1945 in Japan! (Too soon? Sorry Greg. But not really.)
The best part about all this? Hep A contamination occurs through the fecal-oral route (hot damn, MCB 103 actually taught me something), meaning that somewhere up the mass shipping line of the pre-packaged ingredients, an employee took an epic dump, and little did he (it was probably a he because, rooming with a girl next year, I refuse to believe that girls don't wash their hands after they use the restroom) know that this seemingly innoculate act of what we call "dropping the kids off at the pool" or "taking the Browns to the Super Bowl" would soon emerge as a hepatic massacre, all because he was too lazy to take the extra 30 seconds to put some antibacterial soap on his hands after he finished blowing the butt trumpet. Imagine having that kind of power. Our poor underpaid employee #13472 must be so proud.
Moral of the story: do not eat at Chipotle for the next few months. We do not know where the contimation occurred, especially in terms of assembly order and material breadth. My hunch is that the contamination is local at this particular location, given that all 14 cases thus far have been localized to this one restaurant in San Diego, but don't take the risk.
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Hey Gordo,
ReplyDeleteI hope you don't mind if I respond to your blog entry - I'm a Chipotle employee. We certainly wish to apologize for any anxiety we may have caused you over this.
We want you to know that the safety and well-being of our customers is our highest priority, and we are cooperating completely with your local health department in San Diego. Perhaps media reports haven’t mentioned this, but 100% of our crew and managers at our La Mesa restaurant were tested by the health department and 100% of them are clean. All of them have been cleared by the health department to return to work.
Additionally, this restaurant has been inspected by the health department five times in the last five months, including two inspections in the last week, and received A grades (or excellent) in each inspection, and is open for normal business.
Therefore, we do definitely feel it is safe to eat at Chipotle – the health department has said so publicly, and we wouldn’t be open for business if they didn’t believe it was safe. And while the health department has not yet reached a conclusion to the source of the hepatitis A cases, we’ll continue to work with them and help them with whatever they ask of us.
And I thought the joke about the Browns was funny - even though I'm originally from Cleveland....
Sincerely,
Joe Stupp
Chipotle