{"id":4625,"date":"2015-12-11T07:54:02","date_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:54:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/?p=4625"},"modified":"2015-12-11T07:59:17","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T12:59:17","slug":"you-just-dont-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/you-just-dont-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"You just don’t get it…."},"content":{"rendered":"

….a Washington Post reporter passes over the fact right before his eyes.\u00a0 (This is my shocked face!)<\/p>\n

Chipotle, which was the darling of the fast-food category for a time, has run into a bad patch.\u00a0 The chain has been plagued with an outbreak of E.coli that has forced it to close a number of stores….sales are off….the stock is down.<\/p>\n

Why the sudden bad luck?\u00a0 Well you have to read down to the\u00a012th paragraph before the reporter notes—only in passing—that Chipotle changed it business plan two years ago.\u00a0 The chain that was built on quality, grass fed beef switched to conventionally-raised beef (meaning like everybody else) and the food born illnesses started right after that.<\/p>\n

Do you think?\u00a0 Duh.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/12\/09\/what-in-the-world-is-happening-to-chipotle\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Note that Chipotle’s answer is to “improve” its’ food-handling processes….not its food sources.\u00a0 They are after all closely-watched by the USDA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

….a Washington Post reporter passes over the fact right before his eyes.\u00a0 (This is my shocked face!) Chipotle, which was the darling of the fast-food category for a time, has run into a bad patch.\u00a0 The chain has been plagued with an outbreak of E.coli that has forced it to close a number of stores….sales are off….the stock is down. Why the sudden bad luck?\u00a0 Well you have to read down to the\u00a012th paragraph before the reporter notes—only in passing—that Chipotle changed it business plan two years ago.\u00a0 The chain that was built on quality, grass fed beef switched to conventionally-raised beef (meaning like everybody else) and the food born illnesses started right after that. Do you think?\u00a0 Duh. https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/wonk\/wp\/2015\/12\/09\/what-in-the-world-is-happening-to-chipotle\/ Note that Chipotle’s answer is to “improve” its’ food-handling processes….not its food sources.\u00a0 They are after all closely-watched by the USDA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4625","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-health"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4625"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4628,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4625\/revisions\/4628"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4625"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4625"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thistlehill.net\/wpblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4625"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}