Chipotle Mexican Grill is a "fast casual" restaurant specializing in burritos and tacos. They make all of their dishes to order, and focus on cooking fresh and healthy fare, served up in minutes. They are often seen as a faster and less expensive alternative to full service restaurants, offering cuisine of a comparable quality with counter service in place of waitstaff and a more casual atmosphere. http://www.chipotle.com/

Chipotle Mexican Grill is named after the chipotle chile, which is essentially a smoked jalapeno pepper. The restaurant is famous for popularizing the oversized burrito. Since the portions are quite large, some customers choose to wrap up a portion of their meal to carry home and finish later.

On the menu at Chipotle you will find burritos stuffed with cilantro lime rice, black beans or pinto beans, guacamole, your choice of cheese or sour cream, and your pick of meats (including carnitas, barbacoa (which is barbecue in English, adobo grilled chicken or adobo grilled beef. Fajita burritos come with sauteed peppers and onions. For those watching their carb intake, burritos also come without the tortilla, served in bowls. In addition to the burritos that made Chipotle famous, the restaurant also serves soft tacos, crisp tacos, salads and chips with guacamole. http://www.chipotle.com/#/flash/food_menu

Chipotle prides itself on serving "food with integrity," and strives to use ingredients purchased from food producers who use sustainable practices. Their goal is to use foods that are "unprocessed, seasonal, family-farmed, sustainable, nutritious, naturally raised, added hormone free, organic, and artisanal." For example, their pork comes from pigs that are humanely raised in pastures (and not factory farmed), without the use of antibiotics or byproducts in the pig feed. The dairy that Chipotle uses does not come from cows that have been injected with bovine growth hormone (rBGH). Also, the beans served in the restaurants are organic and sustainably farmed.http://www.chipotle.com/#/flash/fwi_fare