Chipotle gets people sick!

Alexis Ponce, Reporter

A zombie outbreak? No wait, it’s E. coli, salmonella, and the Norovirus.

Due to many people getting sick, on February 8th 1,900 Chipotle restaurants decided to shut down to hold a staff meeting about food safety. Chipotle has suffered from outbreaks of E. coli, Salmonella and Norovirus which had infected customers before. With these outbreaks, customers have been posting pictures on their social media of Chipotle meals joking or mocking about getting sick with E. coli or Norovirus.

The trouble struck Chipotle in August 2015 when 64 customers were infected with Salmonella in Minnesota and another 100 people were struck with Norovirus in Southern California. In October and November, these infections were followed by an E. coli outbreak that infected 53 people in nine different states.  At the school Boston college, roughly 140 students were infected with Norovirus in December while a second incident broke out affecting another three different states.

With all these outbreaks going on the trouble didn’t stop there for Chipotle. Customers have sued and the company was recently served with a subpoena by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s Official of Criminal Investigation. Late January, CEO Steve Ells said he was “hopeful” that the Center for Disease Control would soon declare the outbreak over.

In February he’s planning on luring customers with a new “marketing campaign.” While Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold’s was saying that there hasn’t been and E. Coli case in two months and the company has been serving million customers a day without an incident. Hopefully these outbreaks have stopped permanently.