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Oh, Chipotle. In 2015 and early 2016, the Colorado-based restaurant chain made headlines for serving up several food-borne illness outbreaks that dramatically emptied its customer’s gastrointestinal tracts. Now, the chain is making headlines for dramatically filling customers up.
In a lawsuit (PDF), filed November 16 in the Superior Court of Los Angeles, three nutrition-conscious patrons claim they were tricked into eating high-calorie Chorizo burritos after seeing Chipotle advertisements that suggested the swaddled meals were merely 300 calories. One plaintiff, David Desmond, realized he had been duped when he felt “excessively full” after eating the burrito, according to the lawsuit. Along with the other two plaintiffs, Edward Gurevich and Young Hoon Kim, Desmond is seeking unspecified damages and a class action-status for the complaint.
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Source: Ars Technica – A “300-calorie,” gut-busting burrito earns Chipotle a new lawsuit