Which opened first qdoba or chipotle

Qdoba -- which currently has about stores in 47 states -- is the No. It's now branded as Qdoba Mexican Eats. Jack in the Box acquired it in , and Qdoba in early moved its headquarters from Lakewood to its parent company's offices in San Diego. In June , Qdoba opened its first location with a full bar in Lakewood.

Everybody except Joe got the first question wrong! However, the answer to which rice was better went almost unanimously to Qdoba…. Based on question two, it looks like Qdoba rice wins this battle. I was really surprised by these results; I would have assumed rice would be really hard to decipher. Although we had some mixed answers to question number one, it looks like Chipotle guac came out on top. So if guac is the reason behind your preference for Chipotle, it might just be a legitimate reason.

You might think six people may not be an adequate subject pool for a legitimate experiment, but a few things definitely were learned. Chipotle chicken and guac seem to be victorious over Qdoba's, and Qdoba rice seems to have prevailed over that of Chipotle.

However, for the rest of the rounds these two Mexican food chains maintained pretty even scores. If you want, look into the results for a more in depth analysis. Leaders who are shaping the future of business in creative ways.

New workplaces, new food sources, new medicine--even an entirely new economic system. From the moment the chain opened, it has never managed to shake its runner-up vibe.

Qdoba stumbled into the new millennium, owned by a private equity firm, before it was bought outright by Jack-in-the-Box. While Chipotle is falling slightly short of their massive growth expectations , with murmurs that the franchise has plateaued, Qdoba overdelivered with a relatively superb , thanks largely to menu and pricing tweaks that are making more customers come back.

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