JC
John Louie Cruz
May 9, 2026
My family has been always a fan of chipotle, so yesterday, May 8, 2026 at around 5:00 pm, we decided to have lunch at this outlet (Abrams road Dallas). The store was almost empty. We let our daughter order first, and we noticed that the staff who served her bowl was in a hurry and scooping almost half the portions on each selections our daughter picked for her bowl and she ended up having a lousy order. (Severely under portioned)
When it comes to my wife’s and my order, we were attended by another staff who was very nice and attentive. At the end of the line, my wife asked our server if she can at least adjust the serving size of guacamole on my daughter’s Bowl because she was given half the usual portion of it.
Out of nowhere, here comes a third staff who hasn’t even seen what was going on, told our server that she must charge us double for our request. So i told our staff if thats the case I don’t mind paying extra but I want a fair portion. Our server seeing the obvious, wanted to adjust the portioning error, when this third person interrupted her without looking what’s really the issue and said “if they want more they pay doubles” on a very rude manner.
So my wife told our server, can we speak to your manager?
This third person interfered again immediately saying “I am the manager”.
Wow!
First of all, this third person who was claiming a manager is not acting like one.
She was very rude, inattentive, and obviously not properly trained. She started arguing with both of us without any understanding what really was going on. She didn’t even see the served products which shows the obvious difference of standards. She just went on an aggressive argument and very rough with her attitude.
So we decided to walk away and cancel our order altogether.
My wife and I worked in food service too as senior leaders, and never in my 25 years career have seen such unprofessionalism. At least not with my staffs and managers.
All of our employees, managers included are trained to always treat all of our customers fair and with dignity.
We were trained that for any customer queries, you should first check whats goin on, before making a decision on how to address the issue. We are also the type of food service professionals who were trained to accommodate our customers with reasonable means and try to deescalate any customer’s concerns.
I am sharing this experience here to raise concerns on chipotle’s leadership because I care about this brand. I am not only a loyal follower of this brand. My former employment company was a national supply partner for chipotle and I used to help develop sub-products for chipotle’s national LTO program many years ago.
Having this experience is not only a let down, but more of a troubling case of lack of supervisory training. If This behavior were recorded by a customer, would have been a trending worthy content on social media and could have easily tarnished the brands reputation.
I have been to many chipotle outlets in many cities and mostly the service is very good!
But we all know in this day and age, that it only takes One bad scandal to bring down a business’s good reputation.