Here’s another good reason to love eating at Chipotle: the Mexican restaurant chain has recently announced that it is partnering with Standard Renewable Energy to install solar panels at approximately 75 of its restaurants over the next year.
They’ll be installing solar panels in Denver, Colorado, Austin, Dallas, and San Antonio, Texas. Chipotle is expecting to avoid around 20,500 tons of CO2 emissions of the life of the project. When Chipotle has completed installing solar panels in all of its locations, it can boast being the largest direct producer of solar power in the restaurant industry.
Other green efforts by Chipotle includes increasing its local produce program by 10%. Chipotle is purchasing at least 35 percent of at least one bulk produce item in all of its restaurants from local farmers and producers. This makes Chipotle the only national chain taking such steps toward buying locally. Chipotle expects to have more than 25 local farms in its network that will supply some of the lettuce, green bell peppers, jalapeno peppers, red onions and/or oregano served at the chain’s 860+ restaurants nationwide. Other green efforts by Chipotle include: serving free-range pork and opening a partially wind-powered restaurant in Gurnee, Illinois
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