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You know, and the next thing you know, we're pivoting to closing dining rooms closing restaurants

summer digital only summer takeout only and it just became real time and kind of in that

moment I also realized holy smokes I think our digital business is going to become the business over the foreseeable future.

And thank God, you know, we had invested the way we had.

Welcome to the Barron Streetwise Podcast. I'm Jack Howe. The voice you just heard, that's Brian

Nickel. He's the CEO of Chipotle Mexican Grill, and I recently grilled him until he spilled all of the beans

about his turnaround efforts at Chipotle including a mobile ordering

makeover that has kept the burritos flying during the pandemic.

We'll also say a few words about Reats, those are real estate investment trusts,

a way for investors to gain some real estate exposure without buying entire buildings.

Chipotle and Reats coming up.

With me as always, our audio producer Meta, hi Meta.

Hi Meta. Hi Meta.

Meta, I ate a very important donut this past week. Hi. stopping at the local bake shop for some sweets. It wasn't really a hard sell if

from being honest. I got the brownie for her and a donut for myself. It was a

pumpkinie glaze type of thing and they put them in a bag. I was walking back

out of the car and there was some outdoor

tables at the bake shop and a couple of them were filled but it wasn't too packed and I've

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