Chipotle's comeback bid: avocado tostadas, quesadillas, and chocolate shakes

June 26th, 2018, 09:48 pm

Chipotle's comeback bid: avocado tostadas, quesadillas, and chocolate shakes

After a series of health scares in recent years, Chipotle is cooking up a comeback with some new menu items — including quesadillas, avocado tostadas and a chocolate milkshake https://t.co/A9N5nuptdU pic.twitter.com/OdvUfKcJJL
— CNNMoney (@CNNMoney) June 25, 2018

• After an E.coli outbreak in late 2015, Chipotle has struggled to turn things around and regain customers and their trust again.

• This past March, the company hired CEO Brian Niccol in hopes he could help the chain turn things around after a succesful three years of being the CEO of Taco Bell.

• Since then, Chipotle's shares have gone up about 65% this year.

• To keep and lure back more customers, the chain is testing more menu items: avocado tostadas (their answer to avocado toast), quesadillas, nachos, a new spring salad, a Mexican chocolate milkshake, and a Paloma (a slushy like margarita cocktail that is made con tequila, naturally).

• The items are currently being tested in New York at the NEXT test kitchen but "there is no guarantee that they will be rolled out to all locations."

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They had me at Avocado tostadas.

.......They really didn't have quesadillas before?

Wow.....they didn't.

You could order them. It was just one of those secret menu items of sorts

Kids menu.

They 100% did because I used to order them all the time back in college on my lunch break. How confusing.

I already order quesadillas sometimes so it's nice they're officially putting them on the menu.

What they REALLY need to do is have a club so for every 10th purchase, you get one free. I would be so up for that.

Oh I thought people got over the E.Coli thing? Lol I trust Chipotle enough to have eaten there last night shiiiiit.

Ppl been clowning them for the awful queso. Is that even a menu item anymore lmao?

That is completely justified though. That queso is nasty, gritty, and a curse from Satan himself.

i didn't try their queso! but i love taco bells' cheese dip so....

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And they charge for it! Nah if I wanted queso I'd go to Qdoba where it tastes better and its not extra. And i say this as someone who prefers Chipotles food.

Sis, I got food poisoning there like two months ago and I still eat Chipotle. I've accepted myself as a basic white.

I haven't been there since the first outbreak. Not sure I'll ever go back.

I feel like people have been eating avocado with toast for ages so I don't get the craze for it. Is there more to it?

I have no idea how it got this bougie/white girl status cause my Jamaican father ate that shit almost every day for breakfast which is where it started for me lol.

Lol My gran was eating that shit in the 50s, spreading it on homemade/toasted bread. Put here we call them pears.

You know white people think they discovered and invented everything.

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I grew up eating toasted avocado sandwiches (with alfalfa sprouts and Spike seasoning, so good) so it being this “new” trend is bizarre to me.

So is Chipotle actually good? We got one maybe two years ago but I still haven't tried it yet for some reason.

i always have a stomachache after i have some, yet i keep going back. i'm an idiot, i'm aware

I like it well enough.

Yesss girl. And people act like it's so fattening but if you get a bowl with a shit ton of veggies, no cheese, and no sour cream you doin' alright boo boo!

Or just eat half the damn bowl at a time. I can get two meals from it.

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I get their salads and I like them pretty well.

I always get the same thing but yes they're good

Bland af

Meh, it's okay, nothing amazing.

yes. when i worked there i ate there everyday and i never got tired of it

The meat is dry as shit ime. Considering I just had a nasty bout with food poisoning, I'm not sold on them being E.coli free

it's ok. i usually get it only once every month or two months but only when i want it but usually i'm never craving it & go some place else.

under seasoned af

It’s super salty and they overdo the cilantro (saying this as someone who loves cilantro)

not worth the hype.

i love chipotle. i LOVE it

Totally. I go way too often

I used to get their salads fairly frequently and liked them enough but I find they really load up stuff with salt and I used to feel gross the next day.

It's sort of like how people are crazy about In N Out Burger - the quality of the food for the price you pay is pretty decent.

it's alright, but it doesn't compare to a legit taqueria..

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Taco Bell is better

It really depends on the location. There is zero consistency. At certain locations the food will be bomb. At others, everything is bland, poorly cooked, and stale.
I haven't eaten at Chipotle in a year bc I was tired of playing roulette with my food.

Their guacamole is so so so good! I really like Chipotle but I don’t go a whole lot.

Nah. Moe's is better.

It shares calorie and protein info and the taco salad (no dressing, no cheese, no sour cream) fits my macros so I'll eat there when I need a place. If that sounds like an endorsement, it isn't.

It’s crazy how it wasn’t the E.coli that did them in, but the shitty queso lmao.

It’s true, the queso was god awful. And every time I got Chipotle since they introduced it, the food has been bad, too. I used to love it but I don’t bother anymore.

Idk how that gross shit made it out of a test kitchen

didn't they try to do that with queso and they got dragged bc it was trash

i don't mind chipotle but there are always better burrito and taco options around me

i wanted to try the queso but everyone steered me away from it.

Taco bell's fake cheese sauce is miles better... TACO BELL

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Ok but that milkshake sounds good

ikr

Damn I might have to start going back to Chipotle lol.

I just really wish Moe's chicken would get on Chipotle's level. Everything else about Moe's (well, besides the chips, but they're free so who cares) is so superior.

I really wish my area would get a Qdoba tho

flawedinsomniac

I probably just need to move to a place with a Qdoba tbh! I doubt we’ll get one. We only got a Chipotle a year or so ago.

I get the barbacoa burrito, it's seasoned properly and its good, but it goes downhill quickly; you have to eat it all bc it doesn't reheat well, but you're too full and lousy if you eat it all.

i'm here for quesadillas.

In addition to the "health problems", their food just wasn't very good before. I love chocolate shakes, so I will try it, and you know what? This other stuff sounds good, too. I just hope it tastes good. How are you gonna have "Mexican" food that's as nasty and bland as Karen's craisin salad?

Just making quesedillas with truffle cheese right now, because I am lawless. Or well, just chucking a load of cheese on a tortilla, because I'm white.

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