--- description: “People can pick and choose exactly what―and how much―they eat,” spokesman Chris Arnold told Bloomberg. title: Chipotle Stays the Course After Calorie Criticism image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Food & Drink](/tag/food-drink/) ## Food & Drink Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Chipotle Not Worried That Your Burrito Is a Total Calorie Bomb by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 19, 2015 10:37 PM CUT by [Maya Rhodan](/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 19, 2015 10:37 PM CUT Chipotle isn’t about to invest in skinny burritos. A spokesman for the chain of Mexican restaurants on Thursday [waved off](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/chipotle-doesn-t-really-care-that-burritos-make-you-fat "undefined") [a recent New York _Times_ feature](http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/02/17/upshot/what-do-people-actually-order-at-chipotle.html?rref=upshot&abt=0002&abg=1&%5Fr=2 "undefined") that examined the nutritional value of a typical meal at the fast-casual mainstay and found a meal can cost up to 1,070 calories. Food is “something to be enjoyed,” spokesman Chris Arnold said. “Not a science experiment aimed at engineering away calories or grams of fat.” “People can pick and choose exactly what―and how much―they eat,” Arnold added. “We let them put those ingredients together in whatever way makes sense to them.” \[[_Bloomberg_](http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-02-19/chipotle-doesn-t-really-care-that-burritos-make-you-fat "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3715866/chipotle-calories/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3715866/chipotle-calories/"},"headline":"Chipotle Not Worried That Your Burrito Is a Total Calorie Bomb","datePublished":"2015-02-19T22:37:31.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T04:33:45.144Z","description":"“People can pick and choose exactly what―and how much―they eat,” a spokesman says","url":"https://time.com/3715866/chipotle-calories/","keywords":["Food & Drink","calories","health","Companies","food and drink"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Maya Rhodan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[],"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":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/food-drink/","name":"Food & Drink"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3715866/chipotle-calories/","name":"Chipotle Not Worried That Your Burrito Is a Total Calorie Bomb"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"Should I Eat Pizza?","description":"You might be surprised that four out of five health experts give pizza the thumbs up. But don’t be fooled: these are not greasy thumbs.","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/NvpgAWn5/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2015-02-12T19:00:46.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/NvpgAWn5.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3715866/chipotle-calories/","duration":"PT1M39S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3715866/chipotle-calories/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```