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So my standard Chipotle order is a steak burrito with pinto beans. I've noticed that about 9 times out of 10 the server either almost gives me black beans instead of pinto beans or has to ask me twice what kind of beans I want. I'd say about a third of the time it goes down like this:
- I'll have a steak burrito please
Then they put the rice on and say
- Black bean? (never in the plural of course)
while starting to put black beans on the burrito before even waiting for my response.
Then I have to interject really quickly and tell them I want pinto beans.

Another third of the time it goes down like this:
- I'll have a steak burrito please
- (As they are heating up the tortilla) Black or pinto bean?
- Pinto beans please
Then they put the rice on and either start to put black beans on or ask me again what kind of beans I want.

The other third of the time I try to be proactive and say "Steak burrito with pinto beans" from the beginning. Invariably they either have to ask me again what kind if beans I want or they reach for the black beans.


Is ordering pinto beans considered weird or something? Has anyone else ever had this problem?

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It's obvious that "black beans" is the correct answer here. Don't blame the people who never say bean in the plural form for your mistake.

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You know, at some point you would recognize the pattern and say "Pinto beans" before they get a chance to put black bean on your burrito.

They ask again, you smash their jaw. It's only fair.

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Is ordering pinto beans considered weird or something?

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Nope, you're correct, pinto beans FTW

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this happens to me every single time I go

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Just order a fajita burrito and avoid eating those disgusting little fetuses altogether.

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I consider myself somewhat of a Chipotle connoisseur. I would estimate I have eaten there about 70 times in the last 8 month. I am currently on a 3 day streak. Here is my standard order.

Chicken (in the last week I have been going steak, considering making it my new standard. I have tried barbocoa, liked it but it doesn't mesh with the other ingredients as well IMO. Carnitas I have never had, I suppose I should try everything though if I am calling myself a connoisseur. Ok so anyways:

chicken/steak
pinto beans
rice
all 4 salsas (some hate this, I have converted one friend to it, and he is probably the biggest chipotle fan I know aside from myself. I suggest everyone try it once)
lettuce
cheese


I have not once had this sort of trouble with the beans. My problem I have is with them often giving me sour cream when I never ask for it. This occurs most often when there is a big crowd, so when my burrito is at the salsa station, I am about 3 to 4 feet back. So when they ask me, I say "can i get all 4 salsas please". I also hold up 4 fingers in case they can't hear me, I often don't enunciate well and the place can be loud. Anyways, I'd say about 40% of the time in this situation I get sour cream. It really pisses me off. Also you'd think at some point they'd start to recognize me since I have to be their most common customer by far.

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Easy solution:

Don't eat any of those beans. Don't eat beans in general. Problem solved.

Chicken bowl
Extra rice
Double chicken
Hot salsa
lettuce
little bit of cheese (not the 6 lb. mound of cheese typically on there)

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ask for 1/2 chicken, 1/2 steak and thank me later- you'll get a lot more meat because they are dumb and can't to halves well.

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ask for 1/2 chicken, 1/2 steak and thank me later- you'll get a lot more meat because they are dumb and can't to halves well.

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This is genius, actually.

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I always just say, "x burrito with y beans". Or "burrito bowl with x (meat) and y beans". Typically, this is carnitas with black beans. They almost always get the beans right, but sometimes you have to remind them about the meat.

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I've never seen a bias towards one type of beans. My problem is I like the hot sauce, but a full ladle of it is way too much IMO. My standard is to say "I'd like like light hot sauce please," but half the time I get a full ladle anyway. I think they're just not paying attention so now I make a point out of it: "I'd like hot sauce but I just want a few drops." My real pet peeve is when they start to drizzle it on there and I'll shout "That's enough!" but they ignore me and continue to dump the whole ladle on. Sigh.

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ask for 1/2 chicken, 1/2 steak and thank me later- you'll get a lot more meat because they are dumb and can't to halves well.

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Ah yes, I'm a big fan of "The Hybrid" as my roommates and I call it. But why not just get double meat then? One full scoop chicken, one full scoop steak.

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ask for 1/2 chicken, 1/2 steak and thank me later- you'll get a lot more meat because they are dumb and can't to halves well.

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Ah yes, I'm a big fan of "The Hybrid" as my roommates and I call it. But why not just get double meat then? One full scoop chicken, one full scoop steak.

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It's all about value, sir. Would you rather have 1 1/2 scoops for the price of one, or 2 scoops for the price of 2?

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ask for 1/2 chicken, 1/2 steak and thank me later- you'll get a lot more meat because they are dumb and can't to halves well.

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Ah yes, I'm a big fan of "The Hybrid" as my roommates and I call it. But why not just get double meat then? One full scoop chicken, one full scoop steak.

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It's all about value, sir. Would you rather have 1 1/2 scoops for the price of one, or 2 scoops for the price of 2?

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The key here is standing up for your rights... I am a big fan of the double chicken, and occasionally "the hybrid". But if you clearly say "double meat", and are willing to pay the extra $1.25, then you have to stand up for yourself if you get less than a full 2 scoops. Occasionally you have to say "no I want DOUBLE MEAT". They always relent and give you your just scoops.

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when i order qdoba I always say chicken burrito w/ black beans. and if they [censored] it up, because I am a pretty loud and clear speaker, I make them make it until its right. im not paying for something that i didnt order

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Just order a fajita burrito and avoid eating those disgusting little fetuses altogether.

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I agree with this. I feel the beans kind of bog down the greatness of the fresh ingredients.

FWIW, my normal order is a chicken bowl with 3 of the 4 salsas (not the tomatillo... although maybe I should do this) with fajita veggies, rice, sour cream and lettuce. It's my favorite restaurant meal that's not at a sit down establishment.

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Jesus after reading all of this I'd hate to work at Chipotle. Half this, a few drops of that, wrong beans! I would imagine that everytime one of you guys makes some sort of request the employee tries to kill you with his laser eyes.

Of course it angers me to no end when they put sour cream on my burrito when I don't want it.

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when i order qdoba - I make a big mistake by not going to Chipotle instead.

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There fixed it for you. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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Jesus after reading all of this I'd hate to work at Chipotle. Half this, a few drops of that, wrong beans! I would imagine that everytime one of you guys makes some sort of request the employee tries to kill you with his laser eyes.

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Perhaps you've never been to Chipotle. They have three people for each step of the process. Given a bean preference between two varieties, it shouldn't be difficult to scoop the correct one. But I'm totally with you on the meat part. I mean, YOU WANT TWO SCOOPS OF MEAT!?!?!? AND DIFFERENT MEATS!? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KEEP UP WITH THIS!!!?

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YOU WANT TWO SCOOPS OF MEAT!?!?!? AND DIFFERENT MEATS!? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KEEP UP WITH THIS!!!?

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Anyone else imagine this in the voice of Brian Regan?

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Jesus after reading all of this I'd hate to work at Chipotle. Half this, a few drops of that, wrong beans! I would imagine that everytime one of you guys makes some sort of request the employee tries to kill you with his laser eyes.

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Perhaps you've never been to Chipotle. They have three people for each step of the process. Given a bean preference between two varieties, it shouldn't be difficult to scoop the correct one. But I'm totally with you on the meat part. I mean, YOU WANT TWO SCOOPS OF MEAT!?!?!? AND DIFFERENT MEATS!? HOW AM I SUPPOSED TO KEEP UP WITH THIS!!!?

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I've been there many times and they are about as well organized as you can make it. I'm commenting more on the fact you have a line out the door, it's loud as hell, and you're making a pretty crappy hourly wage each time someone makes a special request or you can't hear them or whatever, your screw is going to tighen just a little bit. Right or wrong, eventually you're going to have complete contempt to your customers and each time they ask for something that you're not used to you're going to want to kill them. I think that's the problem with the reverse buffet style where you specify as you go what you want...

Enough of my rant. Chipolte rocks.

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when i order qdoba - I make a big mistake by not going to Chipotle instead.

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There fixed it for you. [img]/images/graemlins/wink.gif[/img]

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ya, next time Ill drive 400 miles up to chicago and get some chipotle.


there are none open in st louis yet, I dont think .

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Chipotle's quality has dropped off substantially in the past six months, so don't worry about it.

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Threads about Chipotle make me miss living in Vegas almost as much as I miss the casinos.

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Anyone else imagine this in the voice of Brian Regan?

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Yeah, I thinkt that Brian Regan thread may have sunk into my subconscious.

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there are none open in st louis yet, I dont think .

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At least two, maybe three. Downtown Clayton at corner of Forsyth and Central and Westport at corner of Craig and Olive. Holla.

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1) This thread is teh awesome
2) Qdoba is teh suck
3) Mixing meats is teh suck
4) To the guy who thinks he's special for eating at Chipotle 2-3x a week -- you're not alone, bud. There have to be a ton of regulars, especially at lunchtime at locations near major office complexes.
5) I'll have to try the four salsas. I especially like holding up four fingers when ordering the four salsas, that's kind of baller.
6) You shouldn't say "light hot sauce" you should say "a little bit of hot sauce". FWIW, my usual pattern when ordering a fajita is to ask for "some of the tomato and some of the corn" and then at the last minute I'll say "oh, and just a little bit of the hot sauce too". This always works.
7) If you order tacos with guacamole, make sure to get lettuce because the lettuce will cover up the guacamole since it's the same color and about 25% of the time you won't get charged for the guac. This is the most important thing to know before eating at Chipotle.

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1) This thread is teh awesome
2) Qdoba is teh suck
3) Mixing meats is teh suck
4) To the guy who thinks he's special for eating at Chipotle 2-3x a week -- you're not alone, bud. There have to be a ton of regulars, especially at lunchtime at locations near major office complexes.
5) I'll have to try the four salsas. I especially like holding up four fingers when ordering the four salsas, that's kind of baller.
6) You shouldn't say "light hot sauce" you should say "a little bit of hot sauce". FWIW, my usual pattern when ordering a fajita is to ask for "some of the tomato and some of the corn" and then at the last minute I'll say "oh, and just a little bit of the hot sauce too". This always works.
7) If you order tacos with guacamole, make sure to get lettuce because the lettuce will cover up the guacamole since it's the same color and about 25% of the time you won't get charged for the guac. This is the most important thing to know before eating at Chipotle.

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Nate - good solid points there. I will comment on a few of them.

3. Mixing meats is not the suck. In fact, it's quite delicious to get the chicken/steak "hybrid" combo.

4. This is true. <10 times per month is not much. There are plenty of people that go much more often. I lived directly across the street from one last year and I went 5+ times per week. The cashier knew my roommates and I and started charging us for only a drink with each visit which made it financially awesome to go there ($1.50 for a burrito/drink).

7. This is a good idea. I notice that when I get double meat (about 95% of the time), it's like a game of telephone since it goes through 3 people...I get charged for the double meat maybe 50% of the time. That's def. nice.

FWIW, I had Chipotle for lunch today in inspiration from this thread. My selection:

Burrito bowl with rice, black beans, chicken extra steak, tomatos, hot salsa, cheese, guacamole

It was delicious.

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haha, what a dumb thing to say.

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3. Mixing meats is not the suck. In fact, it's quite delicious to get the chicken/steak "hybrid" combo.

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It's just a personal pet peeve of my taste buds, I think, and it ranges all the way from Chipotle to a $30/plate restaurant. In general, the meat is the dominant flavor and texture in the dish, and if you mix meats, they can clash or the dish can lack a focal point. Obviously, you need to make an exception for stew-type dishes like jambalaya, which are supposed to have different flavors and textures. FWIW, I can see mixing steak and chicken at Chipotle as being just fine, since they do have somewhat similar textures, but mixing say steak and carnitas would be an utter disaster.

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Not nearly enough barbacoa love going on in this thread.

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I always get pinto with chicken and black with steak, is this weird?

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haha, what a dumb thing to say.

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A year ago I was the biggest Chipotle fan in the world. Now it's just another burrito place. I'll take Panda Express or In-N-Out.

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Anyone want to franchise out a Chipotle? Irvine, CA seriously needs one. There's all these damn businesses here, but there's not one in Irvine. The nearest one is about a 5 mile drive away. Considering there are like 4 Baja Freshes closer than that to me, it's too damn far away.

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Has anyone here weighed out the difference in food between a burrito bowl and a burrito with the same ingredients? I estimate that they give me 15-20% more food when I order the bowl.

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Anyone want to franchise out a Chipotle? Irvine, CA seriously needs one. There's all these damn businesses here, but there's not one in Irvine. The nearest one is about a 5 mile drive away. Considering there are like 4 Baja Freshes closer than that to me, it's too damn far away.

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QFT. I used to work off Michelson and MacArthur, no Chipotle anywhere. Office moved to Costa Mesa and there is one just a few mins away.

I always go Carnitas, rice, black beans, corn salsa, cheese & sour cream.

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OP,

Does pinto beans mean refried beans or pinto beans cooked in the way black beans are?

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haha, what a dumb thing to say.

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Ew.

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yea, wtf? first of all, Chipotle certainly hasn't changed at all in the last year, as far as I can tell it's exactly the same. second of all, panda express is one step above dog food.