CG: From the Farm to Your Dinner Table -- The Lifecycle of a Chipotle Burrito
Industry Focus
The Motley Fool
4.6 • 854 Ratings
🗓️ 24 May 2016
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
For over 20 years, Chipotle has prided itself on fresh, quality ingredients sourced from only the best vendors – in other words, “food with integrity”. Asit Sharma joins Industry Focus to discuss the company’s suppliers, its high standards, and some of the growing pains Chipotle has encountered adapting its supply chain to work for over 2,000 restaurants.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey Fools, welcome to Industry Focus, the podcast that dives into a different sector |
| 0:06.0 | of the stock market every day. |
| 0:07.8 | It is Tuesday, May 24th, so today we'll be covering the consumer goods and retail sector. |
| 0:11.9 | I'm your host, Vincent Shen and for newer |
| 0:14.1 | listeners this is my first week moving into the host seat and I have a great |
| 0:17.2 | discussion in store for you to kick things off proper. I'm enjoined today by |
| 0:20.8 | fool.com contributor, |
| 0:22.5 | Asit Sharma, who is Skyping in remotely from Raleigh, |
| 0:24.6 | North Carolina. |
| 0:25.6 | Hey, I'm really excited to have you on the show. |
| 0:27.4 | How are you doing? |
| 0:28.4 | Hi, Vince, likewise. |
| 0:29.4 | I'm excited to be here. |
| 0:31.3 | So this week, we're trying to tie together each week of |
| 0:36.0 | industry or each sector of industry focus to look at product life cycles and |
| 0:40.8 | for example Christine is going to be covering the life cycle of a |
| 0:44.2 | prescription drug for the health care show tomorrow. |
| 0:46.8 | So for consumer goods today, I kind of wanted to cover something near and dear to my heart |
| 0:51.9 | or at least to my belly a |
| 0:53.8 | Chipotle burrito what do you think about that? Sounds great and very near and dear to |
| 0:58.1 | my belly as well. So glad to have a fellow Chipotle fan here, you know, even with some of the food, I guess |
| 1:05.7 | safety issues they've run into. I've been happily enjoying some of the shorter lines in |
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