Every Chipotle in the country will close… for a matter of hours.
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The meeting comes months after an E. coli outbreak that sickened 52 people and a norovirus outbreak that sickened about 140 people at a single Chipotle restaurant in Boston, according to the company.
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The number of people who have gotten ill after eating at Chipotle has been growing for months.
The company executives on Wednesday said that they are confident that the new rules and steps that are being taken at the popular Mexican restaurant chains will deter any food-borne illness outbreaks in the future.
Ells also mentions they’ve redesigned their supply chain to reduce the risk of tainted food ending up in customers’ meals.
Chipotle’s stock has plunged in the meantime, and many customers are taking their business elsewhere. The company announced that the Denver-based chain would not use the GMO’s, which is an organism whose genome has been altered via genetic engineering in the food served at Chipotle Mexican Grills.
Chipotle will close all of its restaurants for a few hours on February 8 to talk about food safety.
An E. coli outbreak has plauged the company since October and affected 53 people in nine states, according to Bustle.
The company is still waiting for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to declare the E. coli outbreak over, even though the CDC hasn’t identified which ingredient was to blame. One of the norovirus outbreaks is being investigated by the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Central District of California, in conjunction with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Office of Criminal Investigations.
The company has also partnered with a preeminent a food safety testing and consulting firm, IEH Laboratories and Consulting Group, to become “the safest restaurant company in the industry”.
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The company projects an 8 percent drop in fourth-quarter sales for 2015.
