Chipotle in ‘fiasco vortex’ after multiple food safety problems

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. . . For at least 136 victims, almost all Boston College students, their 24 to 48 hours of burning intestines and churning stomachs after eating at the now-closed Chipotle Mexican Grill near the BC campus should be marking their recoveries from stomach pain, nausea and vomiting.

And while even the lingering diarrhea should end reasonably soon for BC students. . . the bad times may be just beginning for [Chipotle Mexican Grill] Consider some these headlines in the past 48 hours or so:

These headlines and the stories that follow them are signs that Chipotle is now stuck in what Eric Dezenhall calls “the fiasco vortex.” The chairman of Dezenhall Resources wrote in a CNBC commentary posted Monday that the “fiasco vortex” is where the “volume, venom, and velocity” of new and old media set in motion a runaway crisis in which a company has little chance in the short term of “reversing the cacophony.”. . .

Such hot commentaries are raising questions about whether Chipotle will recover at all, but history suggests otherwise. For while any number of privately held companies and franchise owners have been wiped out financially by an outbreak — Peanut Corporation of American filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy after killing nine people and sickening thousands with Salmonella-laced peanut butter seven years ago — the publicly traded Chipotle is not likely to fade away.

Read full, original post: As Boston College Students Recover, Chipotle Enters the ‘Fiasco Vortex’

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