Thursday, July 15, 2010 at 5:47pm
Dear Chipotle Mexican Grill,
I’m attaching a photo of your interpretation of a salad. This salad is advertised as: “Chopped romaine lettuce with choice of pinto or vegetarian black beans, meat (braised carnitas or barbacoa, adobo-marinated and grilled chicken or steak) or guacamole, salsa and cheese, with freshly made chipotle-honey vinaigrette.”
The salad I was provided consisted only of overly cooked black beans on a bed of romaine lettuce, in a rather squashed container. I've done fact checking; lettuce and beans combined in a bowl do not result in any known recipe. It's still lettuce and beans.
While I commend you for your use of ecologically sound and conveniently pre-stomped carryout containers, I assure you the contents were less than satisfying. It was the second worse salad I’ve ever eaten; the first having had a bug in it. Bugless salad is hardly a high threshold to exceed. Of the six meatless salad ingredients offered, your restaurant remembered to include only two in this dish. One being lettuce, which if forgotten would have resulted exclusively in a serving of beans. Conversely, had the beans been omitted, would a container of strictly shredded lettuce without garnish or dressing still be a salad? Or would it be a haphazard bowl of abused produce?
Perhaps this was an unwanted lesson in existentialism, the overly cooked and damaged beans representing global warming and finding peace amongst the greens. Then again as the dish is listed merely as “Salad” on your menu, this may have been an interpretation of minimalism. If this is the case, minimalist can also refer to the rating I would give your establishment.
In hunger,
Excerpt from Chipotle Grill's response. The first half was fairly generic. This portion actually amused me.
CHIPOTLE:
I'd also like to mention the pre-stomped container. While some might see this as an added perk - we don't. Unless our customer requests their packaging to be crushed (in which case we'd be happy to do that for you!) we usually try to avoid doing this. As much as I'd love to believe all of this was an existential plea for the well-being of the Earth - I think we just made a mistake.
Since we let you down I'd like to ask you to try us again - for free. If you'll give me your mailing address I'll send you a free burrito card so you can see that we don't think a salad is lettuce and beans. I'm confident your next experience will be less "artistic".
I’m attaching a photo of your interpretation of a salad. This salad is advertised as: “Chopped romaine lettuce with choice of pinto or vegetarian black beans, meat (braised carnitas or barbacoa, adobo-marinated and grilled chicken or steak) or guacamole, salsa and cheese, with freshly made chipotle-honey vinaigrette.”
The salad I was provided consisted only of overly cooked black beans on a bed of romaine lettuce, in a rather squashed container. I've done fact checking; lettuce and beans combined in a bowl do not result in any known recipe. It's still lettuce and beans.
While I commend you for your use of ecologically sound and conveniently pre-stomped carryout containers, I assure you the contents were less than satisfying. It was the second worse salad I’ve ever eaten; the first having had a bug in it. Bugless salad is hardly a high threshold to exceed. Of the six meatless salad ingredients offered, your restaurant remembered to include only two in this dish. One being lettuce, which if forgotten would have resulted exclusively in a serving of beans. Conversely, had the beans been omitted, would a container of strictly shredded lettuce without garnish or dressing still be a salad? Or would it be a haphazard bowl of abused produce?
Perhaps this was an unwanted lesson in existentialism, the overly cooked and damaged beans representing global warming and finding peace amongst the greens. Then again as the dish is listed merely as “Salad” on your menu, this may have been an interpretation of minimalism. If this is the case, minimalist can also refer to the rating I would give your establishment.
In hunger,
"Grimagination"
Chipotle Mexican Grill's vegetarian salad.
The chef remembered lettuce & black beans...
& forgot everything else. Nice.
Excerpt from Chipotle Grill's response. The first half was fairly generic. This portion actually amused me.
CHIPOTLE:
I'd also like to mention the pre-stomped container. While some might see this as an added perk - we don't. Unless our customer requests their packaging to be crushed (in which case we'd be happy to do that for you!) we usually try to avoid doing this. As much as I'd love to believe all of this was an existential plea for the well-being of the Earth - I think we just made a mistake.
Since we let you down I'd like to ask you to try us again - for free. If you'll give me your mailing address I'll send you a free burrito card so you can see that we don't think a salad is lettuce and beans. I'm confident your next experience will be less "artistic".
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