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http://www.businessinsider.com/chipotle-closes-restaurant-where-customers-got-sick-2017-7
Chipotle shuts down restaurant after customers get severely ill
Chipotle has closed a restaurant in Sterling, Virginia, after multiple reports of customers getting sick after eating there, the company told Business Insider.
Customers reported symptoms such as vomiting, diarrhea, severe stomach pain, dehydration, and nausea to the website iwaspoisoned.com, which first alerted Business Insider to the issues at the Sterling restaurant. One person reported two hospitalizations as a result of the illnesses.
In total, eight reports were made to the website indicating that at least 13 customers fell sick after eating there on Friday or Saturday.
Chipotle told Business Insider that it was aware of the illnesses and had notified local health officials.
"We are working with health authorities to understand what the cause may be and to resolve the situation as quickly as possible," Jim Marsden, Chipotle's executive director of food safety, said. "The reported symptoms are consistent with norovirus. Norovirus does not come from our food supply, and it is safe to eat at Chipotle."
He said the illnesses were isolated to the Sterling restaurant and the company planned to reopen that location on Tuesday after sanitizing it.
Customers who fell sick after eating at the Sterling restaurant reported "vomiting violently," fevers, "violent stomach cramps," and dizziness for several days.
"Friday 7/14 Daughter and friends went to Chipotle," one customer wrote on iwaspoisoned.com. By the next morning, the person said, the daughter was "violently sick, puking, diarrhea, severe pain, overnight into Sunday." The customer added: "Friends ill as well with one friend also in ER."
The daughter was hospitalized Sunday for dehydration, nausea, and pain and on Monday was still in "severe pain," according to the customer.
"This is the worst that I have ever seen," the customer wrote.
Norovirus is different from E. coli, the bacteria that led to a widespread outbreak at Chipotle restaurants in 14 states two years ago.
The virus is highly contagious and causes symptoms like stomachaches, nausea, diarrhea, and vomiting. It's the most common cause of foodborne illnesses in the US, with more than 21 million cases annually.
Cases of norovirus stemming from restaurants can often involve a worker who failed to wash his or her hands after going to the bathroom.
Chipotle has closed a restaurant in Sterling, Virginia,
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Nice having known you @yesynot
This whole chipotle thing has me thinking about an episode of BILLIONS, the golden frog, and ICE JUICE.
What is it with this place that causes all these issues, is it where they source the food from?
What is it with this place that causes all these issues, is it where they source the food from?
Yes. Duh.
APOCALYPSEFUCK_is_ADORABLE says
Shitotle hires homeless people for $13 a day and they shit in the beans because they're charged for lunch and don't eat there.
What about Del Taco? Is that safe at least?
mexicans never wash their hands. remember smallpox.
another type of restaurant to never visit: indian. if they don't even bathe what makes you think they'll wash their hands?
I'm probably in the minority, but Chipotle is still delicious and I'm still eating there.
If I ever get sick, I'll just run to the local realtors office.
RealEstateIsBetterThanStocks says
mexicans never wash their hands. remember smallpox.
another type of restaurant to never visit: indian. if they don't even bathe what makes you think they'll wash their hands?
They don't. I've seen co-workers. Its fucking gross.
UPDATE!!!:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/over-100-report-being-sickened-at-virginia-chipotle-1500559449
Over 100 Report Being Sickened at Virginia Chipotle
Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc. CMG -1.50% reopened the location it temporarily closed this week in Sterling, Va. after learning of a small number of customers who complained of getting sick after eating there.
But its latest food safety incident may be worse than expected, as the number of reports of illness associated with that store last week continue to rise.
Chipotle closed the Sterling location on Monday for a “thorough sanitization†after learning of anonymous complaints posted on iwaspoisoned.com, saying it suspected the culprit was norovirus, a common virus that can be spread through food that has been handled by people who are sick. The location reopened on Wednesday.
As of late Wednesday night, Patrick Quade, the founder of the food poisoning website, said the site had received reports of 133 people sickened at the Sterling Chipotle.
They've found a new niche. For those with chronic constipation, it's faster and easier than under cooking a chicken.
Man, I'm done with Chipotle.
Does it want to really re-create an authentic Mexican experience?
Probably poop-laden Mexican veggies. We should really let 18-wheel trucks operated out of Mexico by Mexicans drive on our highways.
Never got the shits. Fingers crossed!
I've only ate there once, did fine. Didn't really like it to be honest though as far as flavor goes.
It's overpriced Taco Bell
http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/21/health/new-type-of-e-coli-in-chipotle-outbreak/