So What Really Happened to Chipotle?

    MANKATO, MN, January 19, 2016 /24-7PressRelease/ -- One of the major reasons people went to Chipotle was because the food was good and supposed to be good for you. The food was allegedly locally sourced and came from places that were nearby. Chipotle represented a gray area where health-conscious food could be mass-produced. Chipotle presented all the same fronts that McDonald's has for years. After all, the leader of setting international dining expectations is McDonald's. Half the reason people go to McDonald's all over the world is because they know what they can expect. The food is basically the same. The colors are mainly the same. The bathrooms are relatively the same. This expectation creates comfort, familiarity, and safety.

Chipotle did the same things as McDonald's for years. Then something happened. People got sick. Over 300 reported cases of illness after eating at Chipotle. The first reports of E. coli sickening Chipotle customers came from October in Washington state and Oregon. The latest being over 140 students at Boston College in Brighton, Massachusetts being diagnosed with norovirus.

Just lately, we received news that the Food & Drug Administration (FDA) are conducting a criminal investigation tied to an outbreak of food-borne disease at one of Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc.'s restaurants in 2015. This is highly unusual. The FDA rarely looks into this kind of outbreak with criminal charges. Sources also report that The U.S. Justice Department is looking into a norovirus outbreak at a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant in California.

Will we ever find out what really happened at Chipotle? Probably not-- this would be hard to track and each outbreak seems to come from a different source. The plausible outcome is that Chipotle may have received food that had E. coli bacteria. E. coli lives in the guts of people and animals. There are many types of E. coli. The type causes symptoms like diarrhea and can be spread through contaminated water or food or via contact with animals or people.

When people get sick from E. coli, it's usually because they get small amounts of human or animal feces in their mouth. The quality control tends to decrease as more is produced. Although, Chipotle should have had better systems in place to catch this.

Knutson+Casey Law Firm in Mankato, Minnesota is continuously investigating these Chipotle cases and will strongly represent anyone who has been affected by any of the recent outbreaks throughout the U.S. If you feel you have a case and would like to speak with an attorney, contact Wade Abed or Randy Knutson at Knutson+Casey.

CONTACT:
Wade H. Abed II
[email protected]
www.knutsoncasey.com
(507) 344-8888

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