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Chris Arnold

  • Blogs

    December 20, 2011

    Chipotle CEO Monty Moran talks immigration reform in the Wall Street Journal

    ​A year ago, news broke that home-grown burrito chain Chipotle was being scrutinized by the feds surrounding the company's hiring of illegal immigrants, and that hundreds of employees would be laid off in Minnesota as a result. A few months later, the same fate would befall Chipotle's outlets ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 16, 2011

    Chipotle's second concept, ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen, opens in DC

    ​Earlier this week, Fortune named Chipotle one of the country's fastest growing companies, noting that the Denver-based burrito chain, which raked in $2 billion in revenue between June of last year and June of this year, grew 23 percent in the process. Not bad, considering it's fast food (okay ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 27, 2011

    ICE investigation at Chipotle Mexican Grill escalates

    ​Chipotle Mexican Grill, our homegrown burrito chain, is about to make the big leagues: It will replace Novell in the S&P 500 sometime soon. But amidst last week's celebrations over that milestone came less happy news: The company is now under criminal investigation by the U.S. government, whi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 15, 2011

    Chipotle registers brand name ShopHouse Southeast Asian Kitchen

    Steve Ells​When news broke late last year that Chipotle's Steve Ells was drawing up plans for an Asian fast-casual concept, the company refused to divulge much. "We want to leave a little mystery," Chris Arnold, director of public relations for the company, explained. But word's starting to l ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 4, 2011

    Chipotle sued by workers fired in Minnesota immigration audit

    ​Protesters demonstrated at Minnesota outposts of Denver-based Chipotle last month after the company fired a significant population of its workers in that state. The dismissals came after a federal immigration audit questioned the authenticity of the documents provided by several employees reg ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 25, 2011

    Reader: Illegals are the backbone of the food industry

    ​A recent immigration-status audit in Minnesota resulted in the Chipotle operations there letting a number of employees go. "Let me be clear, if it were up to us, we would keep all these people," Chris Arnold, director of public relations at the Denver-based Chipotle told Laura Shunk. "They're ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 21, 2011

    Group arrested while protesting Chipotle over immigration audit firings

    ​As the immigration debate rumbles on in this country, more than one pundit has pointed out that closing our borders could have a devastating effect on our economy, since industries built around labor employ large numbers of workers from foreign nations. This is particularly true of the restau ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 10, 2010

    Taste-testing the brown rice and the Garden Blend at Chipotle: The verdict

    ​When we heard that Chipotle was testing some new items at its location at 371 East Alameda Avenue, we leapt for joy, shouting, "Pride of our city! Purveyor of aggressively decent burritos all across our land! Expanding its menu! Huzzah!" Then we found out what those items were: a new "Garden ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 19, 2010

    Foursquare co-founder encourages users to wage war on Chipotle

    ​In case you haven't heard, homegrown chain Chipotle Mexican Grill is offering a Facebook deal this weekend whereby if you "check in" using Facebook Places Mobile on your smartphone and show your phone screen, proving that you're not a big, fat liar to the eye-rolling workhorse behind the regi ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 4, 2010

    Chipotle to roll out an Asian fast-casual restaurant

    Chipotle's Steve Ells will roll out a fast casual Asian restaurant next year​When Steve Ells opened the very first Chipotle Mexican Grill at 1644 East Evans Avenue seventeen years ago, he didn't anticipate it growing into a massive burrito-hawking chain, one that would infiltrate every city in ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 23, 2010

    Chipotle menu changes: What's taken - and what hasn't - a year into the chain's "Low Roller" menu revamp

    ​When hometown hero Chipotle unveiled a new "Low Roller" menu last spring in Denver, featuring novel options like single tacos, small salads, pozole and kids items, some people heralded it as a disaster of biblical proportions - fire and brimstone coming down from the skies, human sacrifice, d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2010

    Chipotle Mexican Grill opens 1,000th restaurant

    ​Chipotle Mexican Grill, the big-ass burrito-monger that started in a tiny renovated ice cream shop at 1644 East Evans in 1993 has reached a couple of milestones recently. The first European Chipotle started hawking the goods to Londoners in May, and yesterday, the chain opened its 1,000th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 22, 2010

    Chipotle marketing: Life is pain -- so eat a burrito!

    ​Hometown burrito hero Chipotle tends to launch quirky marketing campaigns that inspire strong reactions -- sometimes adoration, sometimes not. But all we can say about the restaurant chain's latest gimmick -- emblazoning its takeaway bags with garbled Latin usually used as placeholder text ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2010

    Chipotle's Steve Ells judging America's Next Great Restaurant

    James GladerSteve Ells in his original restaurant.​First came an appearance on Oprah. Now Steve Ells, founder of Chipotle, is a panelist on America's Next Great Restaurant, joining chefs Bobby Flay, Curtis Stone (The Biggest Loser) and Lorena Garcia. They'll be the judges as potential restaura ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2010

    Chipotle is gunning for 50 percent local produce this year

    ​Chipotle Mexican Grill, the ever-expanding Denver-based burrito chain, which just opened its first international store in London, is now upping the ante in the local produce department by committing to use 50 percent of at least one produce item from locally grown sources in its restaurants. ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2009

    Chipotle and the CIW end the tomato war

    ​"At long last," proclaims the Coalition of Immokalee Workers website, "a grower steps forward." And let's not forget a restaurant company, Chipotle, which, as spokesman Chris Arnold had told us three weeks ago, was negotiating with that grower to get around a stalemate that had prevented the ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 20, 2009

    Tomatoes thrown at Chipotle miss target

    This week's Time magazine story on "America's Food Crisis and How to Fix It" cites Chipotle, Denver's homegrown success story, as one of the companies doing things right -- which made yesterday's petition delivery to Chipotle headquarters in LoDo, calling on the company to work with the Coalition of ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 20, 2009

    Cheapotle.com: Chipotle lovers want their big-ass burritos back

    The Great Burrito War of 2009 has begun and, like the foil-wrapped monstrosities on which it is based, it's big, messy and is giving more than few people heartburn. The trouble started when Chipotle Mexican Grill, the burrito restaurant chain born and bred in Denver, unveiled a new "Low Roller" men ... More >>

  • Dining

    April 16, 2009

    Chipotle tests a new menu in Colorado, but it's no improvement

    The Great Burrito War of 2009 has begun and, like the foil-wrapped monstrosities on which it is based, it's big, messy and is giving more than few people heartburn. The trouble started when Chipotle Mexican Grill, the burrito restaurant chain born and bred in Denver, unveiled a new "Low Roller" men ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 1, 2009

    WTF?!!? A new menu at Chipotle

    I have to extend an apologetic hand to both my fellow Westworder Joel Warner and, by extension, the Highland Mommies -- the web message board group in North Denver; See, at Monday's editorial meeting, Mr. Warner brought up a rumor he'd heard that Chipotle was changing its menu. There weren't many de ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 15, 2009

    Colorado's fast-expanding, fast-improving, fast-casual world

    A few days ago, I was a food nomad. Mindlessly searching for sustenance, I wandered along Colorado Boulevard looking for something cheap yet nourishing -- with nourishing almost immediately eliminating most fast-food joints. But not all. The spots that really piqued my 'buds were pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2008

    Burrito Bombshell

    A few days ago, I was a food nomad. Mindlessly searching for sustenance, I wandered along Colorado Boulevard looking for something cheap yet nourishing -- with nourishing almost immediately eliminating most fast-food joints. But not all. The spots that really piqued my 'buds were pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 10, 2008

    Burrito Bombshell

    A few days ago, I was a food nomad. Mindlessly searching for sustenance, I wandered along Colorado Boulevard looking for something cheap yet nourishing -- with nourishing almost immediately eliminating most fast-food joints. But not all. The spots that really piqued my 'buds were pla ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 17, 2008

    Chipotle Bags Brown Rice

    A few days ago, I was a food nomad. Mindlessly searching for sustenance, I wandered along Colorado Boulevard looking for something cheap yet nourishing -- with nourishing almost immediately eliminating most fast-food joints. But not all. The spots that really piqued my 'buds were pla ... More >>

  • News

    June 10, 2004

    Play That Funky Music, White Boy

    Dan Fogarty brings the sound of music to Chipotle.

  • Dining

    October 9, 2003

    Bite Me

    Kitchen Magician

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