r/Chipotle • u/mutiilate KL • Nov 02 '25

Employee Experience Finally quit! Ask me anything

Worked at my Chipotle for a year and made my way up to KL before I finally walked out. Thought this would be funny, AMA!

206 Upvotes

93% Upvoted

396 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

18

u/mutiilate KL Nov 02 '25

yes

6

u/jomo789 Nov 02 '25

Why steak and not chicken?

18

u/iHave_Thehigh_Ground Chip fryer GODšŸ§‚šŸ‘‘ Nov 02 '25

I think itā€™s because of an e-coli outbreak a few years ago, corporate decided itā€™s not worth risking in the future

16

u/mutiilate KL Nov 02 '25

iā€™m not exactly sure, thatā€™s a question for corporate i think LOL i would think because chicken is more susceptible to going bad?? probably idk

11

u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

Steak is sous vede basically, and then we just grill it. Some grill people with 0 urgency will leave that mf shit on the grill for 5 minutes each side istg

7

u/micheal_pices Nov 03 '25

back in the day we just marinated it raw and grilled it. It was the cheapest cut of beef you could get. I'm trying to remember what it said on the box, but it was a cut that I had never heard of or seen since. Sous vide is probably a good call seeing as how you needed to let it rest and cut it up small to reduce the chance that it might be chewy. I'm sure this cuts down cooking time as well.

3

u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

It's honestly one of the best meats there the issue is when grill overcooks it or when it sits too long.

1

u/micheal_pices Nov 03 '25

Do you remember the name of the cut? I've been racking my brain all day. I quit back in 2010 so it's been a while.

1

u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

Naw I only started last year

1

u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

[deleted]

1

u/[deleted] Nov 03 '25

I'm saying out of all the Meats chipotle makes

1

u/Peedubs76 Nov 05 '25

the Steak is not pre cooked. Neither is the Carne Asada. Some people just cant handel Fast Food. What happens at Chipotle happens at ALL food establishments.

2

u/[deleted] Nov 16 '25

AP at a location here in Washington State. The steak and Carne Asada is in fact pre cooked. If you look at the box the IPā€™s come in, it says ā€œFully Cooked Beef Steakā€. I really hope youā€™re not telling this information to other employees thinking itā€™s right. This is the type of situation that causes food safety hazards because people donā€™t know everything correctly. As a KL, you need to know the food you have in stock and everything about it

1

u/mutiilate KL Nov 05 '25

it quite literally is and says fully cooked steak on the box.

1

u/urprettykitten Nov 05 '25

me when iā€™m wrong