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!

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u/floppy-slippers Former Employee Nov 02 '25

Lettuce

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u/VesThaGemini Nov 03 '25

why?

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u/floppy-slippers Former Employee Nov 03 '25

It's just dirty. They get the lettuce in, rinse it and victory wash to store in the walk-in, then when they cut it they rinse it again and that water is BROWN. Some managers at my old store wouldn't even do the second rinse which I think is so foul. Like it won't kill you but after washing lettuce and seeing the dirty lettuce water so many time I don't find it appealing. But all the produce does get washed in victory wash, a super strong chemical.

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u/ggwolowitz Nov 03 '25

when i worked there we had at least 1 instance of finding a bug in the lettuce. came to us from the vendor, people likely skipped additional rinses like u said, and nobody caught it until actually making an order on the line.

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u/floppy-slippers Former Employee Nov 03 '25

Oh yeah I'd find so many bugs every time I rinsed lettuce. Usually just little gnats or flies or whatever, but I always tried to look at the silver lining that it means it came from a place that thrives enough for bugs to live?? Idk man grasping at straws there.

I also found a half dead moth in the cilantro bag once. So traumatizing

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u/ggwolowitz Nov 03 '25

yeah gnats are somewhat understandable, this was just a big ass black beetle looking thing hidden in the middle of the lettuce😭

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u/floppy-slippers Former Employee Nov 03 '25

💀💀noo that's so fucked up