He'd say "hey man, have this burrito on me, good to see you again" after we made some small talk, or something like that. It's no different than the little plastic card you're so proud of, except I guess less awkward.
I didn't hear about the figure from him, but another of my friends. I dont think it's unreasonable, since I got so many free burritos, and some of my friends too.
Yeah, I think this is unlikely. Even an average customer can see that what you're describing just isn't how chipotle works. Not that you can't get freebies/perks from chipotle, because many do, but the way you say it happened is off for multiple reasons. The major ones are:
*Just by standing in line, you can see that most of the jobs are dedicated, especially the cashier. That's the only person who can price your food. "Every employee" can't be allowed to give away $20 of free food because every employee doesn't have that opportunity. Only the person or persons working the register. Just to confirm that cashier is a dedicated job there, I looked it up, and here's a reddit thread about the cashier job being dedicated:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Chipotle/comments/3xn5tz/can_any_cashiers_give_me_some_tips/*Pricing at chipotle is basically arbitrary. You see that the card I posted is for a free item, not for a dollar amount. If anyone asks for half/half meat, they'll give you two scoops. If they break your tortilla shell while making your burrito or if the wait in line was unusually long, they'll give you free chips/guac. if you ordered double meat, they'll mark your bowl down to single if they're in the mood. If you go in after 915 (in nyc, most close at 10), they will basically give you double of everything. On top of that most stuff at chipotle is about $8-12. So A)there's no way they have a strict upper limit price on the dollar amount of food that can be given away B)even if they did, it would obviously have to be way higher than $20, based on the amount of freebies an average customer can see them giving away c)simply because of the structure of the store , it would literally be impossible to keep track of freebies by dollar amount.
There's some other pretty glaring stuff, too, but I'm sure you can come up with some explanations for why it's actually a little bit different than what you said and I'm not really buying it. Obviously, it shouldn't matter to you whether or not I believe you got free chipotle on a regular basis, but you did @ me twice presumably to prove that I'm not cute enough to get a burrito card from chipotle. (spoiler alert: I am)
