Being as that its Friday and despite the fact I didn't workout last night, I decided to throw judgement to the wind and eat Chipotle for lunch today.
I got busted by the guy in those restaurants that hovers around the soda machine for filling up soda with a 'water cup' (ironically it is the one that has the coke logo on it). Now I PAID for soda, I even had a reciept that said so. But the chick at the counter gave me this cup, and who am I to argue with Chipotle's protocol?
So I walk up to the soda kiosk and begin putting Mr. Pibb in it when this portly dude comes up and says "Excuse me sir, you need to fill that with water"...to which I replied "there a problem with the soda?" and he says "You only have water, that's a water cup". I say "Well I paid for soda" and, as a good loyal employee would do, he takes the side of his team and says "No yoU didn't, otherwise you wouldn't have that cup". Already feeling our conversation had gone on way too long, I went in for the kill and pulled out my reciept, even pointed to the line item and said "Look dude, they sold me soda and I don't really have time for this shit". Apparently that combination of words strung together in that fashion was interpreted as a cue for this guy to launch into a speech that details the finer points of Chipotle's soda economics. Oh hell, he musta sat there for a solid 2 minutes expounding on how Chipotle loses all this money because people ask for water and then go put soda in the cup (which is the dumbest caper I've ever heard of but that's just me). Plus he was one of these guys who when you kinda nod and try to walk away he simply raises his voice and sucks you right back in. Apparently this particular Chipotle has been under a lot of scrutiny from the "Regional office" because some secret shopper (really?!) comes into their store every so often and was appalled by how many people were stealing the soda (NOTE-I find this humorous because this is the Chipotle on the 200 block of Michigan Ave so the only people going there are advertising execs and other professionals...apparently these people need to resort to petty soda stealing to save a buck on their lunches).
I kindly told him that all I did was buy my lunch and take the cup they gave me and I fail to see how any of this is my fucking problem. He assured me it wasn't and that he would be addressing this with the resident 'cup classifier' or whatever that un-named artisan's title is. He made double sure that I understood that the next time I came to this particular Chipotle post, if I order soda, by God I'll get the soda cup.
So, there's no real point to this post other than to say if you happen to want a burrito and go to the Chipotle on the 200 block of Michigan, don't fill the water cup with soda cos they are all over that like stink on shit!