Chipotle Announces Denver HQ to Relocate to California

DENVER - Chipotle Mexican Grill announced its moving its headquarters from Denver to Newport Beach, California.

"We'll always be proud of our Denver roots where we opened our first restaurant 25 years ago. The consolidation of offices and the move to California will help us drive sustainable growth while continuing to position us well in the competition for top talent," said Brian Niccol, chief executive officer at Chipotle.

The company said all work within the current Denver office will be consolidated to Chipotle's office in Columbus, Ohio or moved to the new headquarters in California.

The next six months will be dedicated to transitioning the Denver and New York office functions to Newport Beach and Columbus, Chipotle says. The new location will serve as a headquarters for all company operations, business development, communications, finance, marketing, food safety, HR and more.

Chipotle says following the transition, the Denver and New York offices will close.

I’m puzzled by the hatred here. I like their food, as fast food goes, since it’s fresh and pretty unadorned. The employees where I live are all Americans, so the idea that they “hire illegals” is false. And the problem with the e-coli was actually because they were trying to buy from smaller farms and buy as locally as they could.

But I’m also puzzled as to why any company in its right mind would move to California, land of taxes and dysfunctionality.

“Maybe the CEO has a beach house and a yacht in Newport Beach. That is the only reason that I can think of.”

More likely Balboa! My dad’s cousin had a place there with his yacht parked out back. Balboa and Newport Beach are definitely “white enclaves” in Orange County

“I’m puzzled by the hatred here. I like their food, as fast food goes, since it’s fresh and pretty unadorned. The employees where I live are all Americans, so the idea that they “hire illegals” is false. And the problem with the e-coli was actually because they were trying to buy from smaller farms and buy as locally as they could.”

Yeah, the mindless hatred for CA, home and #1 financial resource for FR, is palpable. Somehow, these mindless idiots think of CA as some sort of monolithic place where EVERYONE is either a Liberal or a Mexican! They blithely ignore what's going on in there own states. It literally amazes me that Texans can't see that they have one foot on a banana peel and the other in the Liberal graveyard. And yet they're here perennially $hitting on California as if Texas was currently the "land of milk and honey." That light at the end of your tunnel is the Liberal Train coming for you. Now, I would not wish on any American, the current crap that passes for a government here in CA. That said, California is “your future too,” unless you get your heads out of your collective a$$es and smell the political coffee! And FWIW, there are millions of decent, conservative folks here in CA that deserve a whole lot better than the $hit you dish out on us day after day! I don't say much about the places where you take your morning dump, but I can tell you that you wouldn't like what I wrote about your stinkhole states if I wrote it here!

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