Chipotle Courts Controversy With Pro-Gay and Antigun Stances

[RandySF]

Chipotle delivered a controversy-stoking double whammy for the right wing this month by running a new ad supporting LGBT equality and taking a stance against customers carrying firearms in its restaurants, reports The New Civil Rights Movement.

Following an outrageous stunt pulled by members of the pro-gun Texas group Open Carry Tarrant County – who walked into a Dallas-area Chipotle and frightened customers earlier this month as they posed for Facebook photos in the restaurant’s dining room with semiautomatic handguns – the fast-food chain issued a statement requesting that customers refrain from bringing guns into its restaurants.

“Recently participants from an ‘open carry’ demonstration in Texas brought guns (including military-style assault rifles) into one of our restaurants, causing many of our customers anxiety and discomfort,” Chipotle officials wrote in the statement. “Because of this, we are respectfully asking that customers not bring guns into our restaurants, unless they are authorized law enforcement personnel.”

Gun rights activists immediately took to Twitter, calling for a boycott of the restaurant chain.

However, Chipotle’s courting of controversy with the right didn’t end there. The company released a new ad supporting LGBT equality (pictured above) that is bound to ignite a One Million Moms hissy fit any moment.

As The New Civil Rights Movement points out, Chipotle’s move to support LGBT rights in its marketing efforts is a bold one, as the company does not have the financial strength of a top 10 fast-food chain. It had $327 million in sales last year from approximately 1,600 locations and is still growing.


http://www.advocate.com/business/2014/05/20/chipotle-courts-controversy-pro-gay-and-antigun-stances

[Scootaloo]

1. That's hardly "anti-gun"

That's "please respect the desires of our manager, staff, and customers." If people wanted to be at a gun show they'd go to a gun show, not a chipotle

[Kalidurga]

2. this is great

I would like to see lines at Chipolte like that second rate chicken what's it's name (I know but the name that shall not be named and all that) got when they went all bigoted.

[Louisiana1976]

3. Good for Chipotle. I just might eat there sometime.

[TheCowsCameHome]

4. Good for them -

let those gun-toting idiots go out in the woods and hunt for their food.

[MicaelS]

5. Tried Chipotle once, thought it sucked.

The decor was awful. Industrial techno. And there are other chain Mexican places (Taco Cabana) that have much better food. Never understood what the appeal was.

[Aerows]

6. Weird question

How is that pronounced? I never could figure out how to pronounce it correctly since I have never been to the restaurant and now suddenly everything has "chipotle" in it.

EDIT: Never mind, I looked it up. I'm surprised, I've been pronouncing it correctly (since I know some French and Spanish) and the people around me have been butchering it.

"Would yew like that with the Chi-pot-lee sauce"?

It is Chi-POAT-lay. Damn.

[Cha]

7. they have their freaking "gun rights".. what they don't get to have is

a right to scare people because they act like idiots with their big stupid guns.

Good on Chipotle .. guess they'll just have to do without the gun jerkoffs as customers.

[friendly_iconoclast]

8. I'll believe it when they post legal antigun signs in Texas

Until then, it's just so much lip service...

[otohara]

9. So Glaad On Both Decisions

Fucking gun nuts scaring the shit out of customers and employees.