[HYPOCRACY]

Calling your food ‘slop bowls’ has nothing to do with losing customers.

[al_c]

Sad to read this. I really like Cava.

[Red Badger]

“Chipotle’s CEO Scott Boatwright added the chain is not losing its consumer base to competition, but instead to grocery stores and people eating at home.”

I’m shocked! SHOCKED, I SAY!.................

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

If you can’t get out of a restaurant for less than $20, a $10 cooked-at-home meal which at that price can be semi-extravagant, looks a lot better.

[Retgearjammer]

My wife and I started making our own pizza’s. It costs us about $6.00 to make a 16 in thick crust pizza, 1 lb of cheese, 1 lb of pepperoni home made dough, and 20 to 30 min oven time at 450 deg. Lasts us 3 days.

[1Old Pro]

For me, eating out has always been a luxury. I used to eat out for lunches on occasion when the business environment was conducive to that, but always preferred eating at home for lunch when possible or brought lunch when possible. Dinners out, a definite luxury/reward and typically not often. I'm cheap when it comes to eating out so I prefer to save the $50 - $100+/ meal and eat home.

[dennisw]

My lunch was some warmed up leftovers. So a slop bowl at 1/4 the price an it tasted great!

[Hyman Roth]

What about Guacamole Bowls?

[bigbob]

Overpriced artisnal crapfood for hipsters

[Organic Panic]

Who can afford eating out? Burgers start at $25 around here now. I went to a pub the other day and it was $60 per person for just some pub food and a beer. I can afford it but Geesh.

[McCarthysGhost]

Sounds like terrible economic times. If only we could return to Bidenomics.

For me the main reason for the lost sales is declining food quality and poor customer service. Some of it is due to pricing but mostly it’s declining quality. Chipotle used to be excellent and worth whatever they wanted to charge. The food was fresh and the service at the store impeccable. In general, the people that work at these stores now don’t seem to care about doing a good job at all.

[HonkyTonkMan]

Chipotle’s stock is down about 50% for the year

The former Chipotle CEO is Brian Nichols. He's about to do the same thing to SBUX.

[packrat35]

I can go into many dining restaurants as cheap or just slightly more than fast food.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Traditional Slop Bowls

A slop bowl (also known as a slop basin or waste bowl) is a historical component of European tea sets, dating back to at least the 18th century. It was designed as a handleless ceramic or silver bowl—typically holding about half a pint—used to discard cold tea, dregs, and loose tea leaves from cups before refilling with fresh hot tea. This was especially practical in an era when tea was often brewed with leaves that ended up at the bottom of cups, rather than using modern strainers or tea bags. These bowls were commonly made in pottery but could be found in finer materials like porcelain or silver for wealthier households.

• Dual-purpose use: Some slop bowls doubled as "breakfast basins" for drinking tea directly, especially at informal meals.
• Decline in popularity: They became less common after around 1860 with improvements in tea preparation, but examples persisted into the early 20th century (e.g., in 1902 catalogs). Today, they're collectible antiques; a rare 18th-century Meissen porcelain slop bowl from the Swan Service sold for £18,125 at auction in 2015.
• Cultural note: The term "slop" here refers to liquid waste, not food slop, and the bowls symbolize refined tea etiquette in Victorian and earlier eras.

Examples include Vienna porcelain pieces from c. 1735 or Chinese export porcelain from the 18th century.

[Brian Griffin]

I cook casseroles and soups, which are cheap and easy, two of my favorite adjectives.

Boil the pasta al dente.

Drain if not a soup.

Add whatever.

Bake if not a soup.

[Brian Griffin]

It looks to be pretty good food:

https://cava.com/menu

[Rummyfan]

I hit Chipotle about once a week. I like it. Admittedly it is more expensive than your typical fast food meal. I have never before heard it called a ‘slop bowl’ though….

[Rummyfan]

But not Qdoba?!

[Reverend Wright]

Darden’s isn’t looking very healthy, either.

But the stock is not down as much as CMG

[cyclotic]

Last time we went to CAVA they were remarkably busy. (It was a newly opened store). People who ordered online were waiting 45 minutes to get their carry out)

I think it was a combination of factors. New restaurant, inexperienced staff, poor design and poor managers.

With a significant number of orders being online, they should have a separate prep line in the back for those orders. Then the walk in customers would be also served promptly.