--- title: Chipotle Free Burritos: Moe's, Qdoba Respond on Twitter description: The burrito chain was temporarily closed for a food safety meeting canonical: https://time.com/4212691/chipotle-closed-deals-qdoba-moes-southwest/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-08T20:53:28.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:29:49.355Z og:title: Here's How Chipotle's Competitors Made Fun of Chipotle Today og:description: The chain was temporarily closed for a food safety meeting og:url: https://time.com/4212691/chipotle-closed-deals-qdoba-moes-southwest/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c215c912ccf4a43/69887ca50a4a22744d9c846b/gettyimages-138778375.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 4530 og:image:height: 2548 og:image:alt: Moe's Southwest Grill To Expand og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How Chipotle's Competitors Made Fun of Chipotle Today twitter:description: The chain was temporarily closed for a food safety meeting twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c215c912ccf4a43/69887ca50a4a22744d9c846b/gettyimages-138778375.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Here's How Chipotle's Competitors Made Fun of Chipotle Today > Sponsored content. 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To try to make up for it and win back everybody’s hearts and stomachs, they offered [coupons for free burritos](http://time.com/4212129/chipotle-closed-free-burrito-raincheck/). Chipotle has dominated the Mexican fast-casual scene for a long time—so competitors were naturally very excited about the opportunity to rub sodium in Chipotle’s wounds. Some simply tossed light-hearted jabs, while others offered special deals to attract more customers during Chipotle’s closure. And then, of course, there was Moe’s Southwest Grill, which ran a [full-page advertisement](http://money.cnn.com/2016/02/08/news/companies/moes-chipotle/index.html) in _USA Today_, declaring, “We’re open, especially on February 8th.” > [](https://twitter.com/Moes%5FHQ/status/696559096745455616) Here are a few other competitors getting in on the game: > [](https://twitter.com/DosToros/status/696720063278161921) > [](https://twitter.com/qdoba/status/696776485592403969) > [](https://twitter.com/ontheborder/status/696713022023323648) > [](https://twitter.com/freshii/status/694537116643135489) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4212691/chipotle-closed-deals-qdoba-moes-southwest/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4212691/chipotle-closed-deals-qdoba-moes-southwest/"},"headline":"Here's How Chipotle's Competitors Made Fun of Chipotle Today","datePublished":"2016-02-08T20:53:28.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:29:49.355Z","description":"The chain was temporarily closed for a food safety meeting","url":"https://time.com/4212691/chipotle-closed-deals-qdoba-moes-southwest/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Internet","Business topic"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c215c912ccf4a43/69887ca50a4a22744d9c846b/gettyimages-138778375.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt7c215c912ccf4a43/69887ca50a4a22744d9c846b/gettyimages-138778375.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Moe's Southwest Grill To Expand","caption":"Moe's Southwest Grill To Expand","creditText":"Suzanne Kreiter—Boston Globe / Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4212691/chipotle-closed-deals-qdoba-moes-southwest/","name":"Here's How Chipotle's Competitors Made Fun of Chipotle Today"}}]}] ```