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Food Chain Radio Show #104
Michael Olson, Author & Urban Farming Agriculturalist
Chipotle Food Poison Outbreak – Part 2
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Guest: Michael Palmer, Food Safety Expert, Gap Solutions
Michael Olson Food Chain Radio – Chipotle Food Poisoning Outbreak Part 2
There are two ways to serve up fast food.
One way is to prepare the food in a central kitchen, then heat and serve in remote locations. Most fast food brands serve up this “food from headquarters.”
The other way is to bring fresh ingredients into the kitchens of remote locations, then prepare, cook and serve therein. Chipotle Mexican Grill pioneered this “food with integrity.”
Hungry consumers went for the food with integrity pitch in a very big way, thus allowing Chipotle to grow from 16 restaurants to 1600 in 20 years. Diners were happy. Investors were also happy.
But in October Chipotle was hit with a food poisoning outbreak that reverberates to this day, as just the other day another Chipoltle was shut down by a poisoning. The Chipotle outbreak has sickened diners in a dozen states coast to coast with foods contaminated with E.coli, salmonella and norovirus, and this month’s sales are down over 26% from last month.
Though the outbreak has been thoroughly investigated by Chipotle and the Food and Drug Administration, no cause has yet to be disclosed as to how so many restaurants could be contaminated, across such a broad geographical area, by so many different food poisons, in such a short period of time.
That no answers have been forthcoming leads us to once again ask…
Leave a comment below: What is caused the food poisoning outbreak at Chipotle?
Tune in here, for the syndicated Food Chain Radio Show #1048 March 19, 2016 Saturday 9AM Pacific
