


Chipotle South Elgin is a fast-casual restaurant chain known for its customizable menu featuring burritos, bowls, quesadillas, tacos, and salads. The company is cultivating a better world by serving responsibly sourced, classically-cooked, real food with wholesome ingredients without artificial colors, flavors or preservatives. Using only 53 real ingredients, the company’s Food with Integrity principles prioritize sourcing ingredients from farms that adhere to humane and sustainable practices. Chipotle team members use classic culinary techniques and serve handcrafted entrées in abundance at an extraordinary value. To get exclusive offers and earn free food, sign up for Chipotle Rewards.
Casual restaurant offering Mexican fare, including design-your-own burritos, tacos & bowls.
Address and Contact Information
Address: 348 S Randall Rd, South Elgin, IL 60177
Phone: (847) 931-4172
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Reviews
During multiple visits, I have observed staff members speaking to each other in Spanish while assisting customers, often becoming distracted and not paying attention to orders. This has resulted in frequent mistakes and rushed service. I previously brought these concerns to the attention of the on-site manager, but he dismissed them and showed no interest in addressing the behavior or improving the customer experience.
Today, I visited the location with my daughter, and the experience was unacceptable:
• While placing my order, the employee rushed through my request and failed to add ingredients I asked for. When I asked if she added cheese to my bowl, she gave me an attitude, reopened the bowl, and caused sauce to spill all over the container.
• When I asked for the bowl to be replaced due to the mess, the staff exchanged looks with each other and again responded with poor attitude.
• Although they eventually remade the bowl, the staff then attempted to squeeze all four of our items—including two bags of chips, sour cream, and queso—into a single bag. I had to ask for an additional bag and repackage my food myself.
• Even my 14-year-old daughter commented on how inappropriate the behavior was and expressed disappointment in how customers were being treated.
This level of service is far below Chipotle’s standards, and the dismissive attitude from both staff and management is extremely concerning. It is clear that the issues at this location are systemic and require immediate attention.
I am requesting that this complaint be escalated and that corrective action be taken to ensure customers receive respectful, attentive service. Upper management should be concerned about the brands and specifically this location and investigate further since there is so many bad reviews and complaints.
This location is a disappointment almost every visit. They’re frequently out of multiple ingredients, which defeats the purpose of ordering Chipotle in the first place. What makes it worse is the staff’s attitude—questions are met with eye rolls or dismissive responses instead of basic customer service. I’ve stopped coming here altogether and will gladly drive farther to the St. Charles location, where the experience is consistently better.
I then show up at the restaurant at 6:30pm on Oct 31st, as the email promised, and my order wasn’t ready! It wasn’t even accepted!!! I spoke with the manager, Ramone, and he said that the restaurant wasn’t accepting orders after 2pm that day, and that we should have gotten an email that stated that the order was canceled. I checked my email (yes my primary, spam, and junk folders), and I definitely DID NOT receive this email cancelation.
This situation was incredibly frustrating, disappointing, and entirely unacceptable. I was left scrambling to find another solution for feeding my 25 guests, and I had to explain to them how Chipotle had forked us, that another restaurant was able to step in at the last minute, and why the food was delayed.
This is 2025. This process by the restaurant is 10/10 unacceptable for a national brand with national assets. This is a clear failure in system process and customer service. I will never order catering from Chipotle again, because I don’t know if my order will be there as promised, and I’ll just have to jump through my butt again to feed my guests.
Recommendations for improvement: If the restaurant is not accepting orders after a certain date or time, put a block on accepting the order through the website so payment information is not collected and confirmation emails are not sent out. Then, in the unlikely event that orders are subsequently canceled by the restaurant, actually send out the cancelation! Have multiple redundant forms of communication, especially for something critical like canceling a large catering order for an event. Emails, texts, and automated phone calls need to be sent out! Cancellation notices are extremely important because they change customer expectations and the company needs to do their best to ensure that the cancellation message was received.
To Chipotle: You have to understand that your customers conduct event planning and submit catering orders ahead of their event that often coincide with national holidays. Good product and good service results in repeat business, and catering orders have the ability to influence others who may be considering making future orders. Simply not offering catering on Halloween, and who knows what other days the business chooses, and then not communicating that fact after an order has been submitted, is an extremely poor business decision.