Poll: Have you been to Chipotle?

[v]

Options:

Yes, many times

Yes, but only one or a handful of times

No, and there are locations that are convenient to me

No, but there are no locations convenient to me

[hulley]

On the app so I can't see the pool, but no. No Chipolte for me.

[v]

Reason for this poll: three coworkers and I were just discussing Chipotle because one of them wants us to go for lunch next week. She is the only one of the four of us who has ever been to Chipotle. I found that improbable, but perhaps I overestimate the extent to which Americans frequent Chipotle.

[mbcdefg]

Yes, but I don't love it as much as everyone here seems to. I actually went there for lunch yesterday because I wanted tacos. They were meh. 

I have a Chipotle about two minutes from my house and I've never been there. And that was all before I saw the incredibly crappy Yelp reviews. 

[ddi741]

No I haven't. We have 2 within 20 minutes from our house but have never been. We've talked about it but usually when we decide we want Mexican, we go to one of the local places.

[UnderProtest]

Yes, but not much anymore since it isn't as convenient. Although there are a couple in London.

[StJess80]

Nope. There are quite a few locations around, but it doesn't look appealing to me.

[raangoli]

It's the only fast food I will eat.

[iheartbanjos]

I eat Paleo and am in outside sales, and Chipotle, Qdoba, and Jimmy John's are my 3 go-to fast food places, so I eat there a lot. I get the steak taco salad with guac.

[irene adler]

All the Chipoltles around me are in inconvenient locations with limited parking (which turns quickly into no parking because they are always packed.)

I think I went there once?

But we have a local chain that is amazing, had a drive through, and wins the convenience game every time. #lazy

[thatgirl2478]

Before kids?  All the time.  After kids?  Not so much.  It's not that I won't take the kids, it's just that most Chipotle's around us have very VERY limited seating so it's hard enough to find a table for 2 let alone 3 and a high chair.  Now we go to Qdoba.

[cheezer]

I just picked it up and got back to my desk and there's this poll! It's the closest place open until 8 near my office that's takeout so I go frequently for dinner.

[rootbeerfloat]

There are none where I live, but I've gone out of my way to try it when traveling. It's fine I guess, but not something I miss. And I LOVE Mexican food, lol.

[msmerymac]

Yes, and I started going 10ish years ago, when they were still few and far between and kind of a novelty. In fact, a friend was visiting LA from NY and wanted to go because he knew we had locations.

I love condiments, and I love build-your-own concepts.

[qwerty]

I go maybe once a month. My mom has never been, but she doesn't really eat fast food.

[v]

May 27, 2015 13:06:48 GMT -5 oceanspray said:

May 27, 2015 12:56:16 GMT -5 v said:

Reason for this poll: three coworkers and I were just discussing Chipotle because one of them wants us to go for lunch next week. She is the only one of the four of us who has ever been to Chipotle. I found that improbable, but perhaps I overestimate the extent to which Americans frequent Chipotle.

Ever or never?

I was there once, maybe twice. I usually go to Qdoba.

Ever.  Three of us have never been to Chipotle.  She is the only one of the four who *has* been to Chipotle. 

[alleinesein]

I'm still trying to figure out how the one in my town is still in business. We have way better hole in the wall taco joints that are cheaper and have larger portions.

[drloretta]

I was a grad student in Denver when people told me about this new place across town that had amazing Mexican food. It was the original Chipotle. We'd make a run maybe once a month.

Then they expanded and opened up shop directly across the street from my campus I ate there at least once a week. As a starving grad student, I could make a burrito last a couple of meals at least.

Since they went national I haven't stepped foot in one in years. In part because DH hates Mexican food, in part because it's been a decade+ since I've lived near one.

[WOT?*]

Qdoba is down the road. Chipotle is...not.

[Deleted]

Once.

I wasn't impressed.

[agnes]

I love Chipotle. I go there fairly often.

[spunkarella]

I was all set to say the closest Chipotle is over an hour away, but apprently one just opened about 30 minutes away.

I have never been. It seems like if I'm in a location that has Chipotle, there are also other restaurants nearby that I want to try more.

ETA: Ha! And one is coming to my town later this year. I'm sure I will get around to it then.

[ds1013]

It's one of my favorite fast places to get a lot of "quality" food.
I see a lot of references above to Mexican food, and that's not how I look at it personally. I think more of it like a veggie burger to a cheeseburger. If you go in thinking it's going to taste like a cheeseburger then a veggie burger will be gross, if you go into it looking for a new thing to eat that just happens to be shaped like a burger then you have more of an open mind.

[Nonny]

They opened a Chipotle in my town (about 15 minutes from where I live) maybe a year or so ago? Not sure. I've never been, it just really hasn't come up.

[penguingrrl]

I've never been. They're around, but we don't eat out much and if we do we tend to go for local places rather than chains.

[mrshandy]

Many, many times. Yum!

[h]

I have never been to one and have had them in every city I have lived in for the last decade or so. It doesn't particularly appeal to me.

[maddiepaddy]

I used to be kinda 'meh' about Chipotle until I did a W30 last year and it was really the only place I could eat out where I knew I was compiling. I go there a few times a month now and love it. Qdoba was my mexi-casual place of choice though when I lived in Colorado - yum!

[msmerymac]

May 27, 2015 14:45:01 GMT -5 ds1013 said:

It's one of my favorite fast places to get a lot of "quality" food.
I see a lot of references above to Mexican food, and that's not how I look at it personally. I think more of it like a veggie burger to a cheeseburger. If you go in thinking it's going to taste like a cheeseburger then a veggie burger will be gross, if you go into it looking for a new thing to eat that just happens to be shaped like a burger then you have more of an open mind.

It's technically an SF mission-style burrito based restaurant. Not a Mexican restaurant. 

[msmerymac]

I will say that I think Chipotle and Qdoba are pretty equal. Qdoba has queso, but Chipotle has the sofritas now. My favorite fast-casual-vaguely-mexican chains are Sharkeys and Rubios, though. I'd say Wahoos and Baja Fresh are a step below that, followed by Poquito Mas. Unfortunately, I only have Baja Fresh around me now.