Chipotle Mexican Grill — Restaurant in Apple Valley

I haven’t been to a Chipotle in several years, hated waiting in line and never finding a place to park.. but that was years ago and the downtown Apple Valley location. I didn’t like that Chipotle isn’t open until 11am, because at the time I worked overnight and would have to stay awake for hours after work to get my “dinner.” I could go there just before work hoping to arrive before they close and get less sleep to get my lunch several hours after they closed… but I digress. Fast forward to the pandemic, by this time I’m disabled but can drive. I have a hard time standing for long periods so again I didn’t go to Chipotle because while I could order online my only option was to climb out of my car, hobble into the store and hope my order would be ready OR pay a third party company to deliver my meal for a fee. How I wished they had thought ahead and made a pickup lane or curbside delivery, but no… none of the locations had these things… Lo and Behold I find out just yesterday that Chipotle’s are scrambling to get drive throughs! I look it up and the website indicates there are some… but wouldn’t distinguish the ones with drive throughs from those without!!!

After some hunting I finally figured out there’s this new location somewhere in Apple Valley that neither Google Maps nor Google Earth could pinpoint where it is. I tried Maps and it said it’s somewhere near Pilot Knob Road, Google Earth (with it’s 3 year old maps) pointed to a mound of dirt. 😭

I would have to drive over there to try to figure out where “English Ave” was. First I thought “let’s order online” well the website refused to recognize there was someone trying to access their portal. Fine. Drive over…. The parking lot has an access point off 157th St and Pilot Knob. I go in and find the restaurant. There’s what looks like a drive-thru but I see a post (and read the road) showing this is the “Digital” order lane. So not a drive-thru. I park and try the website again. Now it works.. 🤨.. put in my order (website is very good and allows specific ordering 😁). Wait…wait…wait for my pickup time slot to come. Drive in, person at window finds my order in seconds… and I’m off!!

Or so I thought. There’s no clear signs on how to exit this multi-business parking lot. I try to leave the way I came in and find DO NOT ENTER signs 🤔 👀look around and all other roads appear to go north to what turns out to be 155th St. I got out finally, yeah! It’s not Chipotle’s fault for the stupidity of the parking lot designers. Not taking this out on them!

My order was perfect and I will be back… I feel like going there now! May have to postpone going to my other...

Incident: 6/21/24 employee starts yelling at me in the drive through because I ruined her break.

Now previous LONG time customer here, who occasionally does DoorDash.

I received a door dash order to pick up. Turns out Chipotle opens at 10:45, and I arrived at 10:43. The nerve of me. Mind you, I have no problem waiting, especially if I'm early. No customers are waiting outside to get in, and nobody else is in the drive through for this entire encounter. Immediately some tall kid shaped like a penicil and rocking a Justin Bieber mustache comes to the windows and just snips his question at me:

"the one for ten fifty?".

I was confused but confirmed the name on the order, and he responded "Yeah like I said, the one for 10:50". It had clicked in my head he was referring to the time and not the price. He aggressively slid the window shut and walked away.

For the record the order said it would be ready by 10:47.

Then some shrew walks over and yells at me for being a door dasher and using the drive through. Now irritated from encountering Pencil Boy and this lady's attitude, I replied back with the same energy they were giving me

"What's the point of having a drive through specifically for picking things up then?".

She started to close the window on me. I told her they were incredibly rude. She told me I ruined her break and she was reporting me to door dash.

There have been so many reasons throughout the past 10+ years to stop eating at Chipotle. The good news is I prefer Panchero. Their housemade tortillas are top tier, and if you get the burritos, they mix all the ingredients together before they fold it, getting you everything in every bite.

Let's also not forget Qdoba just opened up off of 42, right by...

No one washes their hands and I swear to God like the employee Said that he was the best sandwich artist of all time a prior Subway employee because He was so much more annoyed at just being a Woke vegetarian and Also a mormon that Was Into polygamy Or however you spell it so he was most likely married to multiple wives and pretty shore. He said that he gets the runs every single time he eats at only this Triple A that he was working at He was also very Descriptive of how he didn't think that changing gloves was necessary while he worked at Subway Or at the Chipotle hes working at currently And I wonder why the fact is that it's just one of the most Dynamic duo is there ever a word at Subway Because he had a CO star And his little gig that seemed to be going on it was a 2 mormon was then seen just Saying toss me the burrito and the dude was just done with the Rice meat beans part and so instead of just passing it down he just threw it like a Frisbee Well just freshly placed ingredients were on the Burrito wrap and this online order im guessing was raining meat rice and cheese all over everyone in line and some almost reached the cook in the back who was marchimg in place with headphones i walked out after a the morman said don't you dare walk out on your order and I said DONE and he told me I smelt like mothballs and I had to beg to differ.... well just a few loose ends to button up.. solid operation...