Chipotle sets goal to open over 300 new locations this year
FILE - An exterior view of a Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurant. (Photo by Paul Weaver/SOPA Images/LightRocket via Getty Images)
A popular restaurant chain is planning a big expansion across the country to help accommodate digital food orders.
New Chipotle locations
By the numbers:
Chipotle Mexican Grill says it plans to open between 315 and 345 new locations in 2025.
A company spokesperson confirmed the plan to FOX Television Stations in an email.
Dig deeper:
About 80% of those will feature a so-called Chipotlane, the spokesperson added, which is a digital order pick-up lane specifically for delivery drivers and pick-up guests.
They’ve been around since 2018, and Chipotle has called them "the digital drive thru of the future."
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Chipotle earnings
The backstory:
The company is riding a wave of recent good business with earnings of $11.3 billion last year - up more than 14%, according to stats released by the company in February.
Chipotle has already opened 57 restaurants during the first quarter of this year, with most of them in the northeast, south and Midwest.
The restaurants planned in the 2025 expansion include 15-20 new restaurants in Canada, the company said.
The Source: Information in this article was taken from a Chipotle spokesperson in an email to FOX Television Stations. Background information on Chipotle and its earnings was taken from various Chipotle press releases. This story was reported from Detroit.