Francisco Velasquez Psych Stats 212 Professor Ronquillo Food VS Mood Eating a variety of healthy foods is one way to help you smile when you step on the scale or into the world, and modifying your diet to include more mood-enhancing foods can also help you maintain that cheery attitude. A healthy diet isn 't a cure for clinical depression or mood disorders, however making better choices can ultimately effect the way you feel. My favorite comfort food is chipotle, and I like nothing better than a bowl of rice and steak. Chipotle is a well-known franchise that has always been known for its integrity and fresh foods. Recently after finding that one of its providers did meet to the company standards chipotle had to let them go but in doing …show more content…
It pops up a lot in campus conversation, and new students swear it won 't happen to them. Yet, when summer vacation rolls around next year, many will be buying their jeans a size or two larger. This researcher thinks living on campus (leads to) higher weight gain rates, because you don 't have your mom cooking dinner and healthy meals for you. Campus dining is a problem - there aren 't many healthy options. Attending college for the first time represents a huge lifestyle shift that can result in the sort of 'sneaking ' weight gain students barely notice at first. Oftentimes, they don 't recognize the changes that are going to occur. There are two things that often add to the problem: Their activity level drops - if they were in a sport and don 't continue that sport in college, they 're going to see weight gain if their food intake stays the same. Furthermore, they 're taking in the social scene, increasing food and beverage intake and to make matters worse, hectic schedules and late-night studying can mean losing track of body rhythms, eating according to convenience instead of appetite. Students will eat whatever is fast and available. Before stating my hypothesis I had an idea of how it was going to turn out. In theory, it sounds as if college students would be more likely to choose a healthier alternative of living a healthier life. For my survey I sampled a group of 45 participants, mainly
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Perhaps the biggest factor that causes students to gain weight is the adjustment from eating at home to eating at college. A student from Chicago State University wrote in the school paper that, “Students in their first year away from home are sometimes not experienced in choosing foods or balanced meals” (French). The free-for-all campus style eating allows for unlimited choices of food and no parents to tell students what they can or cannot eat. Dietitian Ann Litt is also quoted in a Washington Post article in stating that, “the all you can eat concept in most college food services is an invitation overeat” (Linder). College dining halls are set up like fast food restaurants, and some even contain a McDonalds or a Pizza Hut. Fast food style eating really has no nutritional value, other than lots of fat and calories. In an article which examined the ways which students eat nutritional professor Christina Economos stated that more than fifty percent of students are eating too much fat, and seventy to eighty percent are getting too much saturated fat. She states that lack of fruit and vegetable consumption and the eating of mostly processed food is the main cause of weight gain among students (Linder). When students enter the dining hall they need to remind themselves that eating healthy is important.
Chipotle Mexican Grill is a fast casual Mexican Restaurant that operates from the United States. Although the restaurant is specifically segmented to the fast casual Mexican restaurant market, it does not simply operate in this realm. Chipotle is also successful operating in the restaurant market as well. According to the Trefis Team (2014) Chipotle Mexican Grill has managed to take market share from restaurants in the fast food industry.
With the right ingredients, speed, quality and leadership, Chipotle has reinvented the fast-food business. Serving food with integrity has produced big profits.
Chipotle’s strategy is focus on the selected menu that they can provide best to the customers. Also, differentiate with other fast food restaurant such as Taco bell. Chipotle’s competitive advantage is related with the differentiation. They are in the fast-food market, but offer fresh, local produced ingredient and no hormones added to their meat and other dairy products. Therefore, customers who seek integrity, they will go to Chipotle for Mexican fast food.
“Food with Integrity” is the slogan of this restaurant chain; which is a rather new food stop of the time. Chipotle is a higher-end, fast food restaurant found in higher class neighborhoods. It is personally my favorite fast food restaurant and I would highly recommend it to anyone who would like to sink their teeth into some fresh, juicy, Mexican food.
Chipotle Mexican Grill, Incorporated is a restaurant that offers Mexican food including burritos, tacos, burrito bowls (a burrito without the tortilla), salads, and more. The company has been in operations since 1993, starting out as one unit and growing to 1,300 units in over 46 states, the District of Columbia, Canada, and the United Kingdom in 2011. The restaurant served fast-casual food with a customizable menu. The restaurant prides itself on serving food made from scratch with wholesome, organic ingredients (Chipotle, 2016). Chipotle is a restaurant in the fast-casual dining industry, focusing on food sourced from sustainable farming practices including meat product that is responsibly raised in humane ways
Chipotle’s strategy has been working well for them so far but there is room for improvement. Chipotle being company owned instead of being franchised gives them the advantage of keeping the profits with the company and maintain control. Chipotle can work on their marketing strategy to help broaden name recognition, increase sales, and expand locations.
Innovation; Chipotle is a very innovative food provider. Chipotle has an intense focus on making the restaurants have “food with integrity”. The restaurant also placed vegan, veggitarian and gluten-free items on the menu to satisfy customer’s different dietary needs. Each new restaurant location is scouted before construction, making sure the business will be there and also having a steady stream of clean produce for “food with integrity”.
“Food with Integrity”. That is the mission statement of the recently popularized Mexican style fast food restaurant, known as Chipotle. What does food with integrity actually mean? According to the Chipotle website, the company is committed to providing the freshest ingredients. Which translates into purchasing organic produce, dairy without added hormones, and naturally raised meats.
Other than freshman 15, where you gain weight, there is also the possibility of losing weight due to stress and not having a proper meal to eat everyday. The meal plans in a college campus are as bad as if you are purchasing a meal in a restaurant. The food put out is greasy and has more fat. Some colleges even have a meal plan that is all you can eat. That will of course make you gain weight if you take in consideration the money you put into the plan. Not all food given there are healthy and can cause you to begin eating wrong.
Despite the many benefits of Chipotle’s managing style, it was still unable to escape major issues concerning their food products. For a while it seemed that Chipotle had discovered a full proof concept; they could create delicious and healthy food without negative repercussions. The company’s stock was doing amazing in the market and investors were ecstatic. However, at some point in time, all companies face some sort of crisis and Chipotle is not an exception. It is how Chipotle manages the crisis which determines if it will recover.
I believe one segment of the Chipotle customer population is the self-expression people. These people are the kind of customers that want to express their values of supporting the local farmers and the farmer’s mission of growing organic food and their way of supporting that movement is by patronizing this kind of restaurant.
Of course, this weight gain is not dedicated to eating healthy, but may possibly be because of the high intake of such fatty foods and can damage a person's body and health. The amount of fatty foods that college freshman are consuming
College age students face different problems than the teens in high school. When students live in dormitories at a university or college, they eat on a meal plan. They usually do not have money of their own to spend on food at restaurants so the cafeteria regulates what food they eat. The cafeterias serve a lot of foods such as hamburgers or other meats with sauces and a lot of potatoes. These foods are very high in starch and cause of weight gain.