Why Chipotle’s Cheese Grater Is Causing A Happy Stir On TikTok
One of the great things about social media is that it has given common folks an inside look at their favorite restaurants. Sometimes it’s finding out what the employees there like to eat, but sometimes it’s as mundane as finding out how they grate their cheese.
A TikTok video showing just that has caused a stir on social media. In the video, Chipotle employee Daniela Morales shows that all of Chipotle’s cheese comes to the store in giant blocks. Those blocks are then broken down into smaller blocks using a wire cheese cutter and fed into a grating machine. Morales says that this process takes a long time depending on the restaurant’s cheese needs for the day, but says it’s actually one of her favorite tasks to perform at work.
Some commenters used the video as a space to show their appreciation for this freshly prepared cheese. “I knew it was too good to come pre shredded. Thank you for your service.” wrote one commenter.
Morales claims that breaking down the large blocks and shredding each of them takes a long time. In the comments, she adds that it’s one of the items that the restaurant won’t hold overnight either. That means that this process is done at every store, every day, so its patrons can have fresh cheese. Is pre-shredded cheese really bad enough to justify this kind of labor though?
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