[DanCarvajal]

Back in the day when I thought they were a very good value for quality my significant other and I would go there ALL the time. Date night was splitting a burrito and chips then catching a movie. Eventually when we got married we actually had Chipotle catering for our wedding, yes the wedding.

However, I echo the comments that it's not what it once was. I blame the queso introduction, they went through three versions and still have made a good product which now looks indicative of their larger issues. I sincerely hope they turn it around.

[astura]

From what I understand they did a 180 after the food poisoning outbreak.

This is all from memory from an article I read at the time.

Basically, their selling point was preparing ingredients on-site, however, they didn't seem to have the staff to do so safety and corners ended up getting cut and there was widespread food poisoning. They had to pay out millions. To rectify the situation they started preparing some ingredients in central locations ahead of time.

[soupfordummies]

Man, I miss their original queso so much. I loved it! But then they caved to all those who wanted "white queso that tastes like every other white queso". I still get the new one, I still think it's marginally better than somewehere like Moe's but it ain't as good as the original!