The chain’s next-generation restaurants feature QSR-style walk-up windows and drive-thru lanes, as fast-casual brands including Shake Shack, Noodles & Company and The Habit Burger Grill also rethink store design with efficiency in mind
At Chipotle Mexican Grill’s newest restaurant in Chicago, busy diners don’t have to step foot inside the restaurant to grab their carryout order. Instead, they can fetch their foil-wrapped burrito or Lifestyle bowl from a walk-up window.
It’s the fast-casual chain’s only restaurant with a curb-facing counter designed for picking up off-premise orders, a fast-growing part of the Newport Beach, Calif.-based chain’s business.
It’s the brand’s only walk-up window. But more could be on the way as Chipotle battle tests a new store design geared toward the chain’s billion-dollar digital business.
Prototype stores, which have been rolling out in various markets from Southern California to Chicago, feature eco-friendly furniture, high-top tables, a ...
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