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NYC Chipotle besieged by rats feasting on avocados, biting employees
NY Post ^ | December 8, 2020 | 6:48pm | Brett Bachman

Posted on 12/08/2020 4:22:50 PM PST by conservative98

Workers at an Upper Manhattan Chipotle restaurant say they’ve been fighting a losing battle against hordes of hungry rats — and a management team that let the infestation get so bad that four staffers have been bitten by the massive rodents.

The besieged fast-casual Mexican joint on Broadway near West 169th Street in Washington Heights closed to customers indefinitely late last month, but only after rats chewed through the wiring of a computer system that handled orders, two employees told The Post.

In the meantime, those workers are still going into the store to clean, in an effort to keep the vermin at bay.

They say they’ve killed dozens of the rodents by stomping on them, smacking them with broom handles, dropping boxes on them and various other medieval methods of extermination.

“It really started to take a toll on us,” said Melvin Paulino, a three-year veteran at the store who was bitten by a rat last Friday while cleaning. “We’re all scared, it’s pretty common that some of my co-workers will just start screaming out of the blue

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: chainrestaurants; chipotle; foodpoisoning; foodsafety; mexicanfood; qanon; rats; stayoutthechipotles
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To: conservative98
Crat! It's as big as a Buick!
21 posted on 12/08/2020 4:38:10 PM PST by Chgogal (#StopBiden'sBananaRepublic. )
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To: conservative98

And in the death,
As the last few corpses lay rotting on the slimy
Thoroughfare,
The shutters lifted in inches in Temperance Building,
High on Poacher’s Hill.
And red, mutant, eyes gaze down on Hunger City.
No more big wheels.
Fleas the size of rats sucked on rats the size of cats,
And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes,
Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers,
Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue.
Ripping and rewrapping mink and shiny silver fox, now leg-warmers.
Family badge of sapphire and cracked emerald.
Any day now,
The year of the Diamond Dogs.
“This ain’t Rock’n’Roll,
This is Genocide.”

David Bowie-Diamond Dogs


22 posted on 12/08/2020 4:39:04 PM PST by hercuroc
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To: SamAdams76

I thought it was 96th street — above that was sketchy, to say the least.


23 posted on 12/08/2020 4:39:50 PM PST by PallMal
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To: Zhang Fei

My conservative Filipino bud told me once that if there’s a Chinese resto right beside a pet shop, don’t eat there.


24 posted on 12/08/2020 4:40:48 PM PST by max americana (fired liberal employees at every election since 2008 because I enjoy seeing them cry )
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To: hercuroc

You sure that ain’t a coon?


25 posted on 12/08/2020 4:42:14 PM PST by Keyhopper (Indians had bad immigration laws)
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To: PallMal

Technically you could make a case for 110th Street - that’s where Central Park ends and Harlem begins.


26 posted on 12/08/2020 4:43:47 PM PST by SamAdams76 (Orange Man GOOD!)
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To: conservative98

May the black plague spread rapidly!😎


27 posted on 12/08/2020 4:44:11 PM PST by Bonemaker (invictus maneo)
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To: dforest

Chipotle has had a number of “poor management scandals” and tainted food over the years that I’m surprised they can still remain a viable business. I never eat there. Now they have rats? Wonder if they use them in the salad?

https://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/article/article/chipotle-agrees-to-25m-fine-over-tainted-food/


28 posted on 12/08/2020 4:44:27 PM PST by apoliticalone (SOCIAL JUSTICE is as much about justice as PATRIOT ACT is about patriotism.)
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To: conservative98

Shades of David Bowie’s introduction to “Diamond Dogs” (Future Legend):

“Fleas the size of rats
sucked on rats the size of cats
And ten thousand peoploids split into small tribes
Coveting the highest of the sterile skyscrapers
Like packs of dogs assaulting the glass fronts of Love-Me Avenue”


29 posted on 12/08/2020 4:44:47 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics)
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To: conservative98

You got rats on the West Side
Bedbugs Uptown

Go ahead, bite the Big Apple, don’t mind the maggots.


30 posted on 12/08/2020 4:45:01 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: hercuroc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITzqf-nVZyE

Dead cat, dead rat
Can’t you see what they were at?
Fat cat in a top hat
Thinks he’s an aristocrat...

The Doors.


31 posted on 12/08/2020 4:46:39 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful!)
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To: conservative98
Chipotle besieged by rats feasting on avocados, biting employees...

Maybe if the restaurant didn't serve 'Rat patrons, these 'Rats would not be feasting on avocados and biting employees.

Oh wait, what kind of NYC 'Rats are we talking about here anyway?

32 posted on 12/08/2020 4:47:32 PM PST by C210N
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To: conservative98

DaCommieo’s fault.


33 posted on 12/08/2020 4:48:24 PM PST by Paladin2
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To: conservative98

R-I-C
See you in the sewer, suckers
K-E-Y
Why? Because we're vermin
R-A-T!

34 posted on 12/08/2020 4:49:19 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: conservative98

Try about 2 jack russell Terriers.


35 posted on 12/08/2020 4:49:29 PM PST by rsobin ( )
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To: dfwgator

Ha good one!


36 posted on 12/08/2020 4:50:09 PM PST by hercuroc
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To: rsobin

Try about 2 jack russell Terriers.

********

What sauce and sides go best with that?


37 posted on 12/08/2020 4:50:17 PM PST by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: conservative98

The only way you get lots and lots of big rats is if they are eating well.


38 posted on 12/08/2020 4:51:32 PM PST by Paul R. (You know your pullets are dumb if they don't recognize a half Whopper as food!)
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To: conservative98

DeBlasio has his own mobsters


39 posted on 12/08/2020 4:55:25 PM PST by BigEdLB (All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others-George Orwell)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

laissez les bon temps rouler...


40 posted on 12/08/2020 4:56:14 PM PST by Noumenon ("Only the dead have seen an end to war." - Plato)
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