Chipotle shares take fresh hit after Boston College students fall ill

[Little Tich]

Source: Yahoo! News / Reuters

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - More than 20 Boston College students got sick after eating at Chipotle Mexican Grill over the weekend, sending its shares down 6 percent in extended trading on Monday on fears of more food poisoning problems at the popular burrito chain.

Chipotle said it had temporarily closed its restaurant in Boston's Cleveland Circle, where a college spokesman said all the students reported eating, while it works with local health officials to investigate the illnesses.

The sickened students included members of the Boston College men's basketball team, spokesman Jack Dunn said.

The Massachusetts Department of Public Health received 20-plus reports of illness from Boston College students and is working to determine if they are tied to a Chipotle-linked outbreak of E. coli, spokesman Scott Zoback said.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/chipotle-shares-fresh-hit-boston-college-students-fall-005504780--finance.html

[Enrique]

1. i'm trying to find out more about this

why people are getting sick at this chain.

Every article i can find is about how the stock price is affected.

[forest444]

4. This may have something to do with it.

Or it may be purely coincidence. Some coincidence though.

http://money.cnn.com/2015/04/26/investing/chipotle-gmo-free/index.html

[GoneFishin]

12. Follow the money. Once happenstance is ruled out, following the money will usually lead you to

the culprit.

[forest444]

13. Couldn't have said it better.

[cprise]

2. Yikes, I'll steer clear for a week or two

I do grab dinner there sometimes and like the food.

[Thor_MN]

8. This story has been going on for months.

Since they have found no specific ingredient causing this, maybe they need to start looking at employees and financial records. Any new employees that have worked at other locations nationwide? Is there anyone shorting the stock?

[tazkcmo]

3. This really suck!

A decent company by most standards of today and they keep poisoning people! I'm amazed that they are still having issues with this. They could have raised and slaughtered their own hand picked herd by now. Btw, who is BC playing next? I'm going short on BC for 72 hours.

[Archae]

5. It's the fault of secret agents from Monsanto!

Yes, I know, I am being a little facetious.

And I do think there probably is no connection between Chipotle patrons getting sick and their not using GMO's.

But just today I read yet *ANOTHER* asshole going on Alex Jones' show and saying "Da gov'mint done it!" in San Bernadino.
Apparently according to Alex Jones, *ONLY* the government can cause mass shootings, bombings like Oklahoma City, and so on.

If this "Grand Conspiracy" actually did exist, why is Alex Jones still even alive?

[Iowa Bill]

6. Okay, so this forum isn't ENTIRELY about politics?

My bad. Sorry for misunderstanding.

[still_one]

7. While this is most likely because of a supplier contaminent since it has occurred from the east

coast to the west coast, I would really hope they are looking for possible criminal activity involvement in this, and are monitoring who has been shorting the stock, especially just before the outbreak.

Something just doesn't add up

[Agschmid]

9. Yup quite odd, and now I'm done with them for a bit.

[still_one]

10. That is probably a wise decision. The funny thing is they can't track down the source. When Jack

In the Box had an e coli outbreak they were able to track it down quickly to the ground beef. In fact that is when they established minimum cooking standards for the meat. Because of that, many restaurants will not serve meat less than medium.

I usually jump on those with tin foil conspiracies , and now I am doing it myself...

[GoneFishin]

11. If they still can't find the source of the contaminated food then it is deliberate. Who has motive,

resources, and the reach to carry out nationwide retribution against Chipotle?

Hmmm.

[cui bono]

14. Well they did finance/produce a 4 part series on Hulu called Farmed and Dangerous

that was against factory farming...



It was actually pretty good!

.

[SunSeeker]

15. Chipotle is in a tailspin.

They could not even predict earnings to shareholders.