Posted on 08/12/2017 7:34:03 PM PDT by nickcarraway
A Chipotle spokesperson called it "an extremely isolated and rare incident"
Some diners at a Dallas Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant said their lunch was ruined by rodents falling from the ceiling on Tuesday.
Patrons captured cellphone video inside the Chipotle restaurant on North Market Street in the West End area, showing rodents crawling around the floor and one climbing up the wall. Customers claimed the rodents fell from the ceiling.
“If we would have been sitting at the table next to that it definitely would have fell on top of our food because it was literally right there,” Daniela Ornelas, of Dallas, told NBC DFW, adding that she and her boyfriend were eating during the lunch rush at the restaurant.
“I just kept wondering what it was, and I kept looking around until I looked at the floor, and I saw three rats, and I ran,” Ornelas said.
By the time you hear the crack of a bat, it can be too late to avoid the baseball. One Fort Myers Miracle Bat Boy learned that painful lesson Saturday.
"They have helmets on and everything they can do, but when a ball comes at you, there's nothing you can do about it," spectator Tracy Juliano said.
A Chipotle spokesperson issued a statement to NBC DFW Wednesday to help explain how the incident occurred.
“We learned yesterday that mice got into a restaurant," the statement read, "and we immediately contacted professionals who identified a small structural gap in the building as the likely access point. We’re having it repaired. Additionally, we reached out to the customer to make things right. This is an extremely isolated and rare incident and certainly not anything we’d ever want our customers to encounter.”
Ornelas said she was happy with how the employees handled the situation, but would likely not return to Chipotle's West End location.
They are playing baseball at Chipolte’s?
What do people expect? The rats to hang out all day waiting for their food?
Gotta keep the stock fresh-—what’s the problem?
Oh, man, those cost extra.
Oh. My. Gosh.
so what does this have to do with baseball?
“Wadda we gonna do? You don’t see any dogs or cats around due to our Asian competition down the street?”
I thought the Chipotle carnitas looked kinda suspicious....
Dammit you beat me too it. That was exactly to the word what I was going to say.
GMTA I guess.
“If we would have been sitting at the table next to that it definitely would have fell on top of our food...”
“...would have been sitting...”
“...would have fell...”
Ugh.
The rats had on little baseball helmets.
So rats have replaced e. coli in the menu at Chipotle’s?
BTW, David Knight, whose voice and overpronunciation are intolerable, calls it “Chipolte’s.”
“Rodents”?
Gerbils? Hamsters? Tribbles? Norwegian wharf rats?
Shhhhhhh! Not so loud or everyone will want one.
Some people have really weak stomachs.
The food got away.
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