--- title: Chipotle Hopes Its New Food Safety Focus Will Bring Back Customers description: Chipotle Mexican Grill debuted a new initiative for food safety and marketing campaign. authors: - name: Martha C. White role: Writer url: https://money.com/author/martha-c-white/ education: BA, English, Princeton University at_money_since: 2015 articles: 350 covers: - Business - Banking - Career Advice - Credit - Credit Cards - Debt - Economy and Politics - Education - Federal Reserve Rate Cuts - Health and Wellness - Housing - Identity Theft - Insurance - Investing - Lifestyle - Loans - Mortgages - Personal Finance - Professional Services - Retirement - Shopping - Taxes - Technology published: '2016-09-21T16:09:07.000Z' modified: '2024-04-17T03:50:29.000Z' section: Business tags: - Chipotle - Chipotle. E coli - Food & Drink - pubdesk word_count: 255 canonical: https://money.com/chipotle-food-safety-ads/ type: Article source: structured-blocks --- > **Disclosure:** We research all brands listed and may earn a fee from our partners. Research and financial considerations may influence how brands are displayed. Not all brands are included. [Learn more](https://money.com/page/disclaimer/). ![chipotle-safety](https://img.money.com/2016/09/chipotle-safety.jpeg?crop=0px%2C145px%2C4000px%2C2250px&quality=85) Chipotle's been a little under the weather for the past year or so, and it's hoping a new focus can turn things around. The beleaguered brand is making food safety its top priority, and it wants to make sure customers know it. Since the first of a series of E. coli, salmonella and norovirus outbreaks swept Chipotle Mexican Grill restaurants across the country starting in the second half of 2015, the chain went from being millennials' favorite fast-food alternative to a lunchtime pariah. As diners avoided it in droves, Chipotle has tried just about everything to woo back customers, from offering [free](https://time.com/4261720/chipotle-burritos-free/) food to Tweeting [awkward](http://fortune.com/2016/09/07/chipotle-twitter-69-420-poll/) jokes about drugs and sex. The new protocol, on the other hand, is no joke. As the [New York *Times*](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/business/every-days-a-safety-drill-as-chipotle-woos-customers-back.html) reports, the chan has hired food-safety experts to implement practices regularly scheduled hand-washing, dousing vegetables with hot, antibacterial or acidic liquids to kill germs, checking (and re-checking) to make sure items have been sanitized, and a host of other precautions the brand hopes will let it put the string of outbreaks behind it. Getting the word out to customers about the new initiative is the second step. The chain began a marketing campaign Wednesday hoping to draw leery customers to its website, where it outlines the new food-safety initiatives that have been put in place, the [Wall Street *Journal*](http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/business/every-days-a-safety-drill-as-chipotle-woos-customers-back.html) reports. 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