Chipotle’s Boston Restaurant linked to Norovirus Outbreak Opens for Customers
With a hope to get back on track, restaurant chain Chipotle Mexican Grill announced reopening of its Boston restaurant in Cleveland Circle neighborhood which was linked to illness of over 130 people earlier this month.
Chipotle spokesman Chris Arnold said the Boston restaurant reopened on Sunday for customers. The restaurant was closed earlier this month when Boston College claimed that 120 of its students fell ill after eating at the Chipotle restaurant. The college said that the students showed symptoms consistent with the company’s norovirus outbreak.
The Denver headquartered Chipotle is under scrutiny since November this year when the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) first linked the company to an E. coli outbreak. That time, health officials announced that the outbreak sickened at least 52 people in nine US states. Due to huge numbers of cases, Chipotle announced to shut down many of its restaurant.
Since the outbreak troubled the restaurant chain, its shares are tumbling continuously, but on Monday, after Chipotle reopens Boston restaurant, shares changed a little at $493.52 on the New York Stock Exchange.
To make customers sure that things are under control, the head of Boston’s restaurant inspection program ate at Chipotle in Cleveland Circle. Commissioner William Christopher was also among those people who ate at the restaurant on Monday. He ordered a bowl with steak, chicken, peppers, onions, and lettuce. “The food was wonderful. There were no side effects or anything”, he said in a statement after the meal.