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Advice Line with Steve Ells of Chipotle Apr 9, 2026 · 8 mentions

  • ▶ 12:17 Steve Ells Rebecca, in the early days of Chipotle, when I presented the offerings, people said, well, Steve, you just, you're not offering enough to people.
  • ▶ 17:31 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and my guest today is Steve Ells, founder of Chipotle, and we're taking your calls, and Steve, you ready for another call?
  • ▶ 28:14 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and today I'm taking your calls with Steve Ells, founder of Chipotle, and let's bring in our next caller. 3 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:38 Guy Raz Steve, before I let you go, one question that I ask all of our guests you've been on, which is, if you could go back to, you know, when you were young and starting Chipotle out, and you could give yourself advice, now that you know… 3 times in the scene

Advice Line with Tariq Farid of Edible Arrangements Nov 6, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 17:33 Jake DeLeon That want to provide this condiment the same way that Chipotle has the, uh, Tabasco products.

Advice Line with Tony Xu of Doordash Oct 2, 2025 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 44:36 Guy Raz I mean, Chipotle with Nyman Ranch pork, I mean, right, I mean.

Advice Line with Scott and Ally Svenson of MOD Pizza Sep 5, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 27:18 Scott Svenson Sometimes people are in the high teens, best in class brands, Chipotle and Cava and, and others are

Advice Line with Mark Ramadan of Sir Kensington's Jun 27, 2024 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 15:11 Guy Raz Okay, Mark, we're going to take a quick break, but when we come back, a taco shop owner who's about to get a very competitive neighbor, Chipotle.

CAVA: Ted Xenohristos and Brett Schulman Nov 27, 2023 · 5 mentions

  • ▶ 42:06 Guy Raz Like, let's do something more like, like, were you thinking more like a Chipotle or a something like that? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 59:49 Guy Raz Can we, can we make this as big or bigger than Chipotle?

When a robot cooks your lunch with Steve Ells of Chipotle and Kernel Nov 9, 2023 · 28 mentions

  • ▶ 0:17 Guy Raz Steve Ells was first on the show way back in 2017, and at the time, he told the story of how he built Chipotle from a single restaurant in Denver. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 1:26 Steve Ells When the foodborne illness issues were, were going on, I mean, this was, this was some of our toughest, toughest times at Chipotle, and coming off of extraordinary success, and kind of nothing but success, it's, it's quite a shock, it's… 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 8:05 Guy Raz When you were sort of experimenting with this, um, I'm assuming that, that, you know, when you left Chipotle, 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 15:16 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and I'm talking with Steve Ells, the founder of Chipotle, and now a new restaurant concept called Kernel.
  • ▶ 19:59 Steve Ells What is special about the Chipotle model or the, um, the fast casual model is that a lot of the food prep is done at the individual restaurants.
  • ▶ 24:58 Guy Raz Do you see it being replicated by other, like the Chipotle model was replicated?
  • ▶ 28:49 Guy Raz My guest is Steve Ells, the founder of Chipotle, and now a new, highly automated vegan restaurant called Kernel.
  • ▶ 37:10 Guy Raz Steve, what have you, how have you changed as a leader from the time you ran Chipotle to, to this? 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 39:10 Guy Raz I mean, so many people have replicated the model of Chipotle and it's a great restaurant. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 41:17 Guy Raz That's Steve Ells, founder of Chipotle, and now Colonel. 3 times in the scene

MOD Pizza & Seattle Coffee Company: Scott and Ally Svenson Jul 24, 2023 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 50:17 Guy Raz So, so you guys saw what Chipotle was doing, right?
  • ▶ 1:12:12 Scott Svenson All the advantages that come from being that market share leader over time, being the, the Starbucks of the category, the Chipotle of the category, the Panera of the category, as opposed to the second, third, and fourth brands in those…

Culver's: Craig Culver Oct 17, 2022 · 1 mention

  • ▶ 53:14 Guy Raz And, you know, I wonder when, when it started, because, you know, now we think of Chipotle or Five Guys or Shake Shack as just these ubiquitous brands that have been around forever, and they haven't.

Shake Shack: Danny Meyer Jun 15, 2020 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 40:47 Guy Raz He found out Chipotle, and his dream, what he worked at Starz in San Francisco, and his dream was really to be a fine dining chef. 4 times in the scene

Sweetgreen: Nicolas Jammet and Jonathan Neman Apr 13, 2020 · 4 mentions

  • ▶ 13:00 Jonathan Neman The closest thing we had to healthy food was maybe Chipotle or Subway. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 44:43 Guy Raz By the way, just in terms of, I mean, even with all this capital coming in from Steve and from other investors, I have to assume that finding locations in those cities was still hard, because you're, even though you got a lot of money,…
  • ▶ 50:52 Guy Raz Chipotle expanded too quickly.

Dave's Killer Bread: Dave Dahl Jul 1, 2019 · 2 mentions

  • ▶ 2:48 Guy Raz Or how Steve Ells wandered past a burrito shop in San Francisco's Mission District in the late 19 eighties and came up with Chipotle. 2 times in the scene

Chipotle: Steve Ells Oct 30, 2017 · 31 mentions

  • ▶ 0:52 Guy Raz I'm Guy Raz, and on today's show, how Steve Ells turned his love for San Francisco's Mission-style burritos into Chipotle, a restaurant that launched America's fast-casual food craze.
  • ▶ 6:47 Steve Ells Well, the idea for Chipotle is a sort of a combination of food borrowed from stars and sort of a technique and a service format borrowed from the taquerias.
  • ▶ 13:44 Steve Ells And so the aesthetic for Chipotle was very much about how it was put together. 2 times in the scene
  • ▶ 14:20 Guy Raz So you, so you opened, uh, the first store in 1993, right? 10 times in the scene
  • ▶ 22:08 Guy Raz Chipotle has a single store in Denver that's been open a few months, and it got a great first review from a local paper. 4 times in the scene
  • ▶ 29:09 Steve Ells You know, Chipotle and McDonald's are so completely different. 6 times in the scene
  • ▶ 34:17 Guy Raz The expansion of Chipotle was unbelievable. 5 times in the scene
  • ▶ 38:09 Steve Ells You know, no, you wouldn't wish this on, on anybody, but if you back up and think about it, you know, nobody was bringing in as much fresh food, as much fresh produce and meat as Chipotle. 2 times in the scene
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