Chipotle is a burrito restaurant chain with stores in major cities and college towns and is one of my favorite restaurants.  It certainly looks healthy.  Fresh everything and they make the burritos fast.

My doc, as a precaution, wants me to lay off the salt for a while -one of the reasons I'm doing marathons. So one day, I watched them add a large amount of salt to the rice along with the cilantro and lemon juice.  So, I have them give me white rice, before they add the salt and the other ingredients. Should be healthy right? Wrong.

Today I get a burrito just before closing.  I ask for white rice and it usually is pulled from rectangular metal containers which sit in hot water.  Tonight, they didn't have any, but they did have a fresh batch cooking in the pot that was coming off the stove right then.  Okay they say, white rice before the ingredients get put in.  So they guy takes a metal cup and pours into it what looks like 10-40 motor oil from a container that looks like an anti-freeze bottle.  What's that I ask.  It's butter flavor.  Oil.  WTF?

They have to add butter flavor so the rice doesn't stick.  Without the oil, the rice won't do well sitting around.  It separates the rice they say.  So before I they add the salt, they add this stuff. Holy pimply teenager Batman, it's full of oil.   Lots of oil = not healthy.

And they won' t print the nutritional content.  I found one independent study, but the manager at the store said that doesn't reflect the current ingredients.  So why don't they print the nutritional content?  They just don't he says.  Next customer . . .

Here's something.  Chipotle is owned by McDonald's.  I feel another letter coming on . . .

I agree, props for running the marathon though. I think ive been to a chipotle before, its pretty good IIRC.

by law they have to provide you with the nutritional content.  whether its online, or a story copy, they have to have one for public viewing.  McDonalds and other fast food places used to have it postered on the wall back in the day, but i don't know what they do know since i don't eat fast food.  i'm shocked that they actually told you what the stuff was that they added, and even more shocked that they knew what it did.

welcome to america, if they can get it to you in under 5 minutes, its made of crap

Unless it's Dick's Drive-In

Chipotle is about as good as it got as far as mexican fast food chains in Denver . Huge, puffy burritos filled with 90% beans and rice. Little mexican pillows. I still love em.