Dang! Game changer alert! Need another reason to love Chipotle? How about free college tuition? The world’s most popular fast casual restaurant chain just made a huge announcement that they’ll be expanding their employee benefit package in a huge way. According to an announcement made yesterday at Summer Brand Camp, on July 1st Chipotle will offer ALL employees — both salaried and hourly (…as in the dude scooping our your pinto beans behind the counter) — “full tuition reimbursements, sick pay and paid vacations.” It’s a good time to be the person who asks if you know that the gauc is extra. Via NRN and Foodbeast:
“We just made an announcement internally that we are now going to be offering sick pay and paid vacation time for all employees at all levels of the company, including all entry-level employees” Cummings said. “And we’re going to be offering the full-tuition reimbursement that we offer salaried employees to all hourly employees.”
“It’s an incredible statement by our leadership about how much we want to invest in the best people we have and to keep them with us,” Cummings said.
“We have a lot of folks who, if they realize they could make a career with Chipotle, would stick with us while they are in college and take advantage of our tuition-reimbursement program,” Cummings said. “They could find the path to restaurateur is an amazing path that they might not have thought of.”
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“Our platform is built around opportunity,” he explained. “We open a new restaurant every two days. Last year, we promoted 10,000 employees at the restaurant level into management positions.”
The company said about 95 percent of managers are promoted from existing crew members.
DAMN, paid vacation days as an hourly employee too?!?! That’s AWESOME.
Read more about the brand announcement at NRN and Eater. I can’t imagine how many broke college kids are going to try to get gigs at Chipotle now. Bro move by a Bro restaurant brand.
[H/T: Foodbeast]