Tuesday, February 8, 2011

U.S. fast food caught in immigration crosshairs (Reuters)

People take part in a demonstration outside a Chipotle restaurant in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in this handout photo taken January 13, 2011 and released to Reuters by the Service Employees International Union February 7, 2011. Chipotle Mexican Grill has a lot going for it -- an upscale burrito concept, a hip and eco-friendly image, expansion plans galore and a 500 percent-plus stock price gain in just over two years. And then it has something not going its way -- a federal crackdown on its immigrant labor force that has so far forced Chipotle to fire hundreds of allegedly illegal workers in the state of Minnesota, perhaps more than half its staff there.REUTERS/Rafael Morataya/SEIU/Handout (UNITED STATES - Tags: CIVIL UNREST FOOD SOCIETY EMPLOYMENT BUSINESS) NO SALES. NO ARCHIVES. FOR EDITORIAL USE ONLY. NOT FOR SALE FOR MARKETING OR ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS. THIS IMAGE HAS BEEN SUPPLIED BY A THIRD PARTY. IT IS DISTRIBUTED, EXACTLY AS RECEIVED BY REUTERS, AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTSReuters - Chipotle Mexican Grill has a lot going for it -- an upscale burrito concept, a hip and eco-friendly image, expansion plans galore and a 500 percent-plus stock price gain in just over two years.


Barbara Mori Barbra Streisand Blake Lively Brittany Murphy Brooke Burke

Posted by at

No comments:

Post a Comment

Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom)