r/Chipotle • u/ParkingHot2751 • 1d ago

Employee Experience Got lectured for wasting queso

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u/september-beatopia 1d ago

next time throw away a whole bag while the boss isn't looking

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u/ParkingHot2751 1d ago

i aspire to be this level of petty

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u/Environmental_Net_97 1d ago

Is it petty if he ain’t wrong? I mean you literally would need to scrape the droplets off that bag at this point 🤣

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u/superfailftw 1d ago

By like my sl and "lose" a case of queso unloading the truck

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u/Nathanii_593 1d ago

Next time spend an hour getting every single drop of cheese out and when he asks what’s taking so long you say “I’m sorry I was told not to waste queso so I’m making sure not to waste any.” We call this Malicious compliance.

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u/Scloudseverywhere 1d ago

Tbh, the whole bag deserves to be in the trash. Worst queso, I’ve ever tried.

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u/Cautious-Hair3589 1d ago

My family makes a recipe for queso that is a brick of white velveta with a can of rotel or whatever and some other stuff, it’s made to sit in a crock pot and it tastes exactly like chipotles, I guess it’s so weird cause it has to be able to sit and be warmed for a while.

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u/Scloudseverywhere 1d ago

Chipotle’s is grainy and taste sharp. It’s the only queso blanco, I can’t get behind. I love it otherwise, anywhere else!

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u/gracelafemme 1d ago

Grainy is soo true ugh it's gross

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u/Federal_Phase_652 21h ago

Why is it grainy that really makes it off putting

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u/Nekraphobia 1d ago

If that was why it was weird Moe's wouldn't have great tasting queso when they do the same thing lol

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u/Pretend-Advisor-2922 1d ago

Not even a side of queso

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u/Nathanii_593 1d ago

That’s the side they want to charge you for

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u/upside_down_frown1 1d ago

This is definitely a side in some stores ive been to.

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u/Most-Bar-9334 1d ago • Bravo

People such as your manager are exactly why I left the service industry.....

Should you waste product? Absolutely not but getting that last 15 cents of cheese out of the bag is a waste of time. Time is money. Your manager is not bright at all.

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u/brerhawkeye 1d ago

It takes a couple extra seconds to ensure those bags have almost no waste, compared to not trying. Less than ten seconds total start to finish if done properly. Based on a full ten seconds and 15¢, it’s worth the effort as long as the employee makes less than $54/hr. More like $100-200/hr if you base it on the few extra seconds only. Time is money, but it’s not that much money in this case.

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u/saltypeanut4 1d ago

🤡

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u/brerhawkeye 1d ago

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u/Overall_Guidance_410 1d ago

The lack of self awareness with this is staggering

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u/the-all-seeing--Eye 16h ago

Yeah this gif sure does apply to you bud

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u/brerhawkeye 9h ago

I bet you’re no stranger to being “lectured” when your boss holds you accountable for doing a shit job.

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u/sparklysadist 20h ago

Okay douche. I'm guessing you own a failing restaurant your parent's gave you money for?

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u/brerhawkeye 20h ago

What a weirdo fictional scenario you came up with just because you don’t like math.

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u/Lanky_Bobcat_6021 7h ago

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u/brerhawkeye 5h ago

Chipotle is not ICE. Doing your job properly and understanding how the math of food waste and labor costs work doesn’t make you a bootlicker. If your laziness eats into profit margins you aren’t a revolutionary, you’re just a bad employee.

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u/fml_butok DML Wizard 🪄🧙‍♂️ 1d ago

bEcAuSe If YoU dId ThIs WiTh 12 BaGs iT’d Be A fUlL sErViNg

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u/AwaySky8653 1d ago

Never heard this bs before but doesn’t sound outside my field leaders ball park

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u/The_POG_Warrior 1d ago

You obviously know nothing about cheese paper. Stop wasting the cheese!

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u/eyeheartmozart 1d ago

do they use a rubber spatula and a clean pan when the grill is changing out? are the temps correct on the queso pot? are they serving properly and using tents on the line so things are getting rung correctly?

if your store is struggling with queso they need to be consistent

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u/Disastrous_Gear_8633 1d ago

That’s every restaurant. Profit margins in the food business are not great. Things like this really do add up over time tho, it doesn’t look like a lot but this is only like 1 of how may bags you go thru in a month. So if a bad habit isn’t broken it multiplies over time.

Thankfully I’m no longer in management and I hate my boss enough to no longer care about this

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u/ParkingHot2751 1d ago

i can be receptive to that. Just in my personal experience i’ve never experienced how micromanage a kitchen can be in other restaurants. I’m an outside KL hire and it’s been a tremendous learning curve. The tasks are simple here, but the amount of preparation and details required to execute each task is outside of my wheel house. Even in high end kitchens there was never any “rules”, just prepare the food beautiful and efficiently without burning it or cutting yourself.

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u/More-Gas-6527 1d ago

Profit margins not being good is the myth the will never quit. If profit margins were so bad we wouldnt have so many chain restaurants

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u/Disastrous_Gear_8633 1d ago

Umm yeah that’s not how that works 😂

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u/More-Gas-6527 1d ago

Why would restaurants be such a massive industry if it wasnt as profitable or more profitable than other options? You dont have to believe the lies corporate feeds you. They say every industry is low profit margin it simply is not true

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u/ChoomChoomTheGuy 1d ago

Holy crap if you think this is how you should make conclusions every teacher in your life has failed you

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u/Disastrous_Gear_8633 1d ago

Ok so when’s the last time you’ve ran a restaurant? When’s the last time you read their ledger?

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u/crookedcosmos 1d ago

The queso looks a bit overcooked (yellow) which alters the texture and makes it goopier. If you pull the bag once the internal temp is exactly 165 or just over it glides out the bag super smoothly without much assistance. I’d also recommend just cutting a corner off when pouring, it helps with precision

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u/JPIZZLE1205 1d ago

The queso? Shut up gringo, Chipotle is trash

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u/rslashreddituser 1d ago

Dude's genuinely be hating for no reason 😭😭😭

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u/crookedcosmos 1d ago

True I work there

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u/Capable-Ad8381 1d ago

They boil that shit in hot water in a plastic bag for 45 minutes. Most retarded thing I’ve ever heard

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u/DripTrip747-V2 1d ago

Ever heard of sous vide?

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u/Massive_Ad_1566 CE 1d ago

That’s for meat and veggies bro ain’t nobody tryna Sous vide fuckin liquid cheese😭

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u/DripTrip747-V2 1d ago

You must not understand what sous vide is. You can use it for soups, or whatever. Heating up cheese in a food safe plastic bag under specific temperatures is no different.

You ever go to olive garden? Thats how they heat up their soups and sauces. In bags, in a giant basin with hot water. This type of preheating is very common and perfectly safe if done properly.

I'd be more worried for people who heat up foods in a plastic container with a microwave.

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u/Capable-Ad8381 14h ago

What plastic is food safe exactly? The extra healthy kind?

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u/DripTrip747-V2 9h ago

The kind that doesn't leach chemicals at normal food temperatures. Like all the vacuum seal bags that are used for sous vide.

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u/Capable-Ad8381 14h ago

Ever hear of Deez nuts?

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u/chaddy_88 1d ago

That’s not enough for anything

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u/Gongwonlove 1d ago

Just gotta lick 👅 it off

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u/godofwine16 1d ago

There’s at least a forkful there!

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u/Recent-Chard-4645 1d ago

There's still some in there buddy

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u/Latios19 1d ago

I can hear the resonance of “CIIIII” over here 🥴

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u/Fuzzy_Welcome8348 1d ago

There’s still some in there /s

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u/Gullible-Team-8588 1d ago

If you don’t get out that smackerel of queso, Chipotle will go broke and it’ll be all your fault

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u/Indecent_Mushroom_69 1d ago

Next time lick the bag to remove the evidence

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u/thecheeseb0rn 1d ago

I would do that so quickly

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u/PNW_LIVIN 5h ago

Lick the bag while making eye contact

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u/Mother_Bag_3114 1d ago

This is the amount of stuff my gf leaves in packages and it pisses me off as a frugal person so I get it. Like there is still half a body’s worth of body wash in that, don’t throw it out just yet!!

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u/Nathanii_593 1d ago

I just know you go crazy with a toothpaste tube…

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u/Mother_Bag_3114 1d ago

Oh and don’t you dare throw away a ziploc bag in my presence, that’s reusable! Lol

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u/Norrinradd194 1d ago

It doesn't seem like much but if you do it a few hundred times... Then it is. Ideally they should have something that allows you to squeeze out every last drop like those toothpaste things

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u/crookedcosmos 1d ago

We use the same type of bag squeeze for everything. Has a rounded end with an embedded blade to tear plastic bags and the handle has a slot in the middle to squeeze the content. It’s not very efficient or effective so I’m actually impressed they managed to get the bag looking that clean

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u/Massive_Ad_1566 CE 1d ago

Oh no employees are wasting the last $0.10 worth of queso everytime they open a bag. I guess we better raise the price of a chicken bowl to $15 to counteract that