Chipotle temporarily closed its Cleveland Circle restaurant Monday after Boston College said several students, including members of the men’s basketball team, developed gastrointestinal symptoms after eating at the Mexican chain.
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If you’re not in the Boston area and your local Chipotle hasn’t been shut down for E. coli purposes, there’s no need to fear those burrito bowl leftovers in your fridge.
“The pattern here looks like norovirus isolated to one restaurant”, Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold said.
An E. coli outbreak tied to Chipotle has sickened 52 people in nine states so far, but MA has not been affected.
That outbreak, the company’s third food safety incident since August, has raised concern about potential damage to the fast-growing brand that has won a loyal following for its food made with fresh produce, meats raised without antibiotics and ingredients that are free of genetically modified organisms, or GMOs.
Infected workers cause about 70% of reported norovirus outbreaks from contaminated food, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“Right now, we don’t have any indication that there are any issues with the Chipotle’s here”, Anderson said, though she added that the food chain is still investigating exactly what caused the students to fall ill.
Common symptoms include diarrhea, vomiting, nausea and stomach pain.
That would mark the first time the sales figure has declined since Chipotle went public in 2006.
The most recent illness started November 13, according to the CDC.
Stock prices of Chipotle were also down six percent in Monday’s extended trading. Officials from Chipotle also believe the infection does not seem to have been caused by E. coli. The stock is down more than 20 percent since mid-October. The company closed dozens of locations in OR and Washington to address the matter, but has since reopened them and committed to new food-safety testing, training and supplier quality processes.
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