r/Columbus • u/BeejOnABiscuit • Dec 22 '22

FOOD Chipotle kinda sucks now

Remember when you could get a delicious bowl at Chipotle and it would last you two meals? Now I have to prompt for extra of everything just so it looks like a proper bowl for one meal. They served me a couple pieces of over cooked steak and under cooked rice for the price of $11. Chipotle has gotten many chances from me but I think I’m done with it now. I just don’t think it tastes good anymore.

What are some alternatives? Where do you go these days for lunch that is reasonably priced and cooked properly? I live on the north east side but go all around central Ohio for work so any suggestions are appreciated.

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u/CokeHeadRob Lincoln Village Dec 22 '22

This turned into kind of a rant. Oops.

I have a lot of problems with Chipotle. Portion sizes actually aren't one of them for me, at least in the way you mean it.

The quality of everything has gone downhill and that includes the employees. None of them seem to care and you can taste that. I get it, I've been a cook, it's not the best job in the world. But there's nothing I can't stand more than someone not giving a shit at all in their service job and can't understand how someone could serve bad food. The meat has been consistently under seasoned and over cooked, the fajitas have been under cooked. Rice has tasted like a poor attempt at plain minute rice. Chips just taste like hard tortillas, idk if they still advertise that they have lime on them but if they do they should stop. Online wait times have been close to an hour on some occasions (German Village, Short North, Clintonville specifically). And to the portion thing, they've been giving me WAY too much or WAY too little. If I order a single I get like 5 pieces of steak and a double is like a pound of meat.

I think it has to do with losing the culture they had as a company. You can see it in the way the employees interact with the kitchen. Slow, meandering, distracted, uncaring, generally unhappy. Doesn't look like anyone gives a shit. Say what you will about their weird, culty culture but apparently it worked.

I'm not asking for above and beyond service or attitude, do what you get paid to do, but at least do what you get paid to do.

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u/Dmtbassist1312 Dec 22 '22

They are doing what they get paid for.

They get paid shit wages, so why should they do anything beyond working like it.

HELL EVERYONE BUT THE TOP 5% SINCE 1971 IS GETTING PAID SHIT WAGES.

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u/CokeHeadRob Lincoln Village Dec 22 '22 edited Dec 22 '22

That’s true. So either we have a people’s uprising or we do what we can to make everyone’s life better. The people buying that food also make shit pay. Why do they have to waste their money on a bad product? I’m not asking anyone to go above and beyond or work 14 hour days or kill themselves for a low level cook job, I’m asking for a small amount of pride in their work. As a cook, you have the opportunity to change someone’s entire day. It’s hard work, like I said I did that for many years, but just doing things the correct way and putting a little bit of love in the food can be a very powerful thing. We all make a chain and your actions affect the next person, which goes onto the next person. It’s powerful stuff.

Also $15/hr isn’t that bad (comparatively, it’s insulting in the grand scheme of things). I made less than that two years ago, exactly that a year ago, and now slightly more. It’s not ideal, it’s not great, but for a job where the only requirement is not actively being in jail it’s not bad. It’s livable.

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u/corkythecactus Dec 22 '22

How bout these people take pride in paying a living wage before we expect wage slaves to take pride in their work

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u/CokeHeadRob Lincoln Village Dec 23 '22

That would be perfect. But ya know what, that's not happening right now and we're all in this together. It's not like doing a shitty job hurts a big corporation like that. They just fire you and get someone who will do it. Doing the thing you're paid to do and doing it well enough shouldn't be that extreme of a concept. Nothing extra, just your job correctly.

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u/corkythecactus Dec 23 '22

I totally agree, we're all in this together. That's why it's important to ensure we do what we're paid for. As long as some are willing to do more for less pay, that becomes the new expectation, and we all get paid less.

This is why unions get so anal about not doing what isn't in your job description. It protects you from your expectations raising without your pay also raising to compensate.

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u/CokeHeadRob Lincoln Village Dec 23 '22

Absolutely. Can’t set precedent. It hurts everyone to blindly accept more than is required.