“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!.................
most restaurant food is unhealthy, ESPECIALLY so-called “casual dining” and so-called fast food, containing way too much salt, unhealthy oils, and low-end carbs ...
additionally, the costs for eating this unhealthy food has skyrocketed, esp. if one knows how to cook simple and quick meals made from relatively healthy ingredients costing a reasonable amount of money ... then there’s the time factor of eating out, which probably doesn’t save much time over actually cooking at home ... and there’s the poor and/or uneven service and worries about the kind of practices are going on in the restaurant kitchen ...
Its expensive to eat out especially if you are not getting value. The 800lb Gorilla no one want to talk about is that the minimum wage is too damn high!
When I was young, we could not afford to eat out. We had to eat at home.