/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15147902
How did such a shitty, overpriced cafe get to have so many cafes?

Think of the main demographic it's mostly serving to.

>>15147909
Because it was one of the first cafes in the country, back when Americans were starting to appreciate coffee that wasn't from a gas station.
>>15147902
Because it jumped on the trends of "ethnic" food and fast-casual dining with higher quality than the usual sloppa.

>>15147902
You think Moe’s is the same way?
I’ve had both many times but couldn’t tell you a difference, they’re 100% interchangeable in my mind

>>15147902
Even the mild salsa is hot!

>>15147909
I hear they used to be good but got bought out and turned into coffee mcdonalds

>>15147902
Chipotle is pretty good.

>>15147902
Where did this Chipotle is bland meme come from? I worked there 10 years ago while I was in college. First of all, everything is made fresh in house except for the chicken adobo which comes in bags but is incredibly flavorful. The food is best when it's busy because the meat is constantly coming fresh off the grill. Literally everything in Chipotle is made exactly in a way that you'd do it at home. Freshly made salsa, guac, grilled meats, veggies. I mean, I don't know what the fuck else you faggots want.

>>15147933
I always liked Moe’s better. It’s /sloppa/ and feels dirtier than Chipotle but at least has some flavor. A loaded up Joey will put you to sleep, that shit used to be my go-to before my local one went under new management and started pulling some kike shit

>>15147933
Welcome to moe's!

>>15147902
>restaurant named Chipotle
>DOESNT OFFER CHIPOTLE PEPPERS or even a chipotle sauce or salsa, like what the absolute fuck

>>15148065
Freshly made doesn't mean it's not bland. You probably think salt is spicy

>>15148151
What a fucking dumb idiotic fucking meme to project. God damn fucking moron. Its literally not bland and not a single argument can be made to substantiate this claim
>As I've already stated the adobo marinade is incredibly flavorful and uses a variety of peppers and seasonings
>The steak has its own marinade that is also a little bit spicy and very flavorful
>The guac and pico are made with fresh ingredients including jalapenos, red onions, and plenty of salt, cilantro, and lime juice.
>Literally lime and cilantro in the rice
>The beans are cooked with bacon
>Everything is fresh

No one can substantiate their fucking bland claim or make any real argument for its truth. Fucking IDIOTS.

>>15148364
I will admit the carnitas are a little bland. There's no denying that, but I think this of all carnitas. They're not my thing

I like Chipotle. Always get a bowl, though. Honestly never tried one of their burritos.

>>15148065

its bland, your palate is trash, never come back on this board

>>15148364
Don't even bother anon. I've had this argument countless times. The elite hipster /ck/ hivemind has decided that Chipotle is bland and nothing you can say will ever change that.

Qdoba is better

>>15148530
>Ad hominem
>No actual argument
Good job outing yourself as retarded

>>15148364
>What a fucking dumb idiotic fucking meme to project. God damn fucking moron. Its literally not bland and not a single argument can be made to substantiate this claim
Cope, bugman.

>>15148695
And still not an argument to be had. Good job publicly outing yourself as a retard

>>15147902
Even though it's bland shit, it's a good alternative to fast food for health conscious yuppies who don't cook and don't want to feel like shit after lunch.

>>15148695
“Hurrr I posted a soyjak get fucked”

>>15148696
>And still not an argument to be had. Good job publicly outing yourself as a retard

>>15148695
>>15148762
So this is what shitposting has come to.

This thread is shit

Chipotle is good and people who call it shit are just contrarians, they probably have never had a girlfriend either. SAD!

>>15148542
Did you make that game yourself?

>>15147902
it's because people are anti-intellectual.
Chipotle and their idiotic managers are opposed to smart people and their ideas.

>>15147920
crackers

>>15148364
all of the meat tastes identical. seethe harder chipotletard.

Qdoba is better. And you don't have to worry about getting e. coli with your meal there

>>15147920
white ppl

>>15147902
white people, and that's not even bait.

>>15149562
I wouldn't doubt it. I might try playing chess there instead.

>>15147902
I literally don't get it
>live in Texas
>amazing Mexican food literally everywhere
>somehow people still go to Chipotle
Why? Its fucking trash.
Hell just go to taco cabana, at least they have good freshly made tortillas.

>>15149770
BASED

>>15147902
Was one of the first restaurants to do online ordering back in the 2000s
Used to be much more generous portions, and higher quality
otherwise it's healthyish and fastish and cheapish

>>15149774
>live in america
>hamburgers literally everywhere
>somehow billions and billions served
Sometimes you just want trash.

>>15147902
Everyone forgets chipotle started out at the same price point as other fast food places, chipotle may not be particularly good but 7.50 for a whole ingredient and freshly made fully customized burrito vs some piece of shit meal from mcdonald's or burger king for the same price is no contest for someone with a short lunch break and college kids. Chipotle also became popular during the late 2000 and early 2010s and that time period had seen super size me go viral, increasing distaste for processed food, and people were souring on fast food in general - this and the ensuing customer interest in fresh casual lunch vs fast food actually caused the erratic menu schizophrenia between classic cheap food and attempting desperately to have a veneer of fresh food from mcdonald's and the general decline in taco bell/burger king etc. since then. Chipotle was in the right place at the right time with a business model ready to go.

>>15149797
Thats why I can understand tacobell.
But Chipotle isn't taco bell trash. Its just mediocre fast Mexican. And why settle for mediocre when you can have taco cabana.

>>15149816
Can confirm. I ate a lot of Chipotle in college in the mid to late 00s.

>>15149555
If you can't taste the difference between the barbacoa and the carnitas you are truly too retarded to save

>>15148086
they do usually have those little bottles of chipotle flavored Tobasco, but it is pretty funny that thats the only connection

>>15147902
I have never had a good meal from Chipotle. The meat has been complete garbage every time.

>>15147902
Stupid tasteless people desu

Chipotle just opened up a restaurant in my town. I got a barbacoa bowl and the beef tasted good. They were doing a lot of business and you could see people in the back cooking food. You pretty much have to add a bit of chipotle hot sauce though, otherwise the bowl is on the bland side overall.

They had no lettuce because California was on fire or whatever and I guess that's the only place in the world lettuce is grown.

Farmers, if you want to make money grow lettuce to sell next time California is on fire which it will be forever until it falls into the ocean

pic related is typical California lettuce farmer tending his crops

>>15151490
That lettuce looks fire desu

>>15148065
Its not the same anymore anon.

Chicken comes premarinated. Steak comes premarinated and precooked.

Liquid salsa comes pre-made.

Peppers and onions come presliced.

The only thing they make in house still is guac, mild, and corn.

Thats why its bland. Its corporate, soulless shit now.

>>15147909
what I don't get is why people here in Germany fall for this garbage. This shit is sub-tchibo. I guess it helps not giving off such a boomer vibe, but really, it's shit.

>>15147902
For me, it's steak, white rice, white cheese, sour cream, and pico
But only if someone else is paying >:)

>>15148034
Yeah that's the problem with SB, it was good until like 2018 and now it's just another teenager job spot.

>>15147902
Because there is no good Mexican restaurants near me and Chipotle is cheap. It's about $8 for two meals

>>15147933
Chipotle uses more acid and heat than moes. Moes is firmly garbage tex-mex.

>>15152110
Honestly, if you get a bowl and split it out with small corn tortillas, you an easily make 3-4 meals out of it, especially if you supplement with a beer.

I used to get a chicken burrito from this place every time a new episode of Yuru Yuri San Hai aired so now whenever I watch the yurus I start to think of burritos.

>>15152237
Wait scratch that, I used to get them from Qdoba.

>Burrito bowl with three small soft tortillas on the side, or burrito double wrapped, or bowl with a large tortilla on the side
>White rice
>Black beans
>Ask for extra if you want. It's free
>Peppers and onions
>Barbacoa. White people never order this because they're insecure about pronouncing it.
>Mild salsa
>Hot salsa
>Cheese
>Lettuce
>Get Tabasco regular and Chipotle flavor.

>>15151974
peppers and onions come pre-sliced? I call bullshit. do you work there? if I saw that shit I'd walk out day one just on principle.

>>15152256
I don't understand how you could find barbacoa hard to pronounce

>>15147902
good cheese and decent steak, with dope rice (when its good)

>>15151974
>>15152787

Chipotle worker here. Peppers and onions are NOT pre-sliced, that is entirely bullshit. Everything else is true though, chicken, steak, come pre-marinated.

>>15148385
Carnitas aren't bland. Americans like bland stuff so they make them only with pork shoulder (blandest part of the pork).

Real carnitas are made with ribs, organ meat, skin, and basically anything that can be eaten from the pork.

Add some pickled onions with habanero and it's delicious.

>>15147902
The burritos are real fucking big.

>>15151974
>Steak comes premarinated and precooked.
This is a lie, you can see them cooking it.

>>15147902
I've always liked Chipotle. Never had a bad experience with it until a week ago. For the first time ever, I ordered it with Uber Eats and the food was completely flavorless. It tasted like nothing was seasoned at all. I've eaten cold Chipotle plenty of time, so I don't think the delivery time was a problem. I guess they just had some shitty people working in the kitchen that night.

>>15147902
I can get a huge bowl of decently healthy food for $11

>>15148086
this