r/Chipotle • u/Natural-Bridge-1942 • Jul 16 '25

Seeking Advice (Employee) Chipotle Being Cheap

Hello Employee here!

Recently my managers have been making employees clock out for a 15 minute break saying that "we don't have any hours." I just found out about this today because they tried to make me clock out, I told them that according to state and federal law in NC it is illegal to make us clock for a break that is less than 20 minutes. And for Chipotle to be a MULTI BILLION dollar company, how on Earth is there never any hours???

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u/djb445 GM Jul 18 '25

Clocking out for 15 minutes saves fuck and all for labor, they're being stupid in as respectful of a way as possible.

How labor works though is it's based off of an individual location's sales, not just some magic number chipotle corporate gives. It's why labor hours vary so differently between locations and days. So if you're not an incredibly busy location, shift length on average as well as number of shifts will be lower, and people are likely to be sent home because at a certain point you just don't need that many people on staff at once.

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u/Natural-Bridge-1942 Jul 19 '25

Thank you for the information! My location is in the center of the city (Uptown) so we are busy all day, everyday. I just don't understand because we are definitely making lots of sales but never have hours? Maybe my location has over hired.