Chipotle CEO: McDonald's Chicken Farm the 'Most Disgusting Thing' — entrepreneur.com

Chipotle has some foul words for McDonald’s. Though McDonald’s $50 million investment in Chipotle back in 1998 may have been instrumental in getting the burrito chain off the ground, Chipotle’s founder, Steve Ells, always sought to keep the fast-food giant at a reasonable distance. And in some cases, it turns out, he was downright repulsed by McDonald’s practices. In a new profile by Bloomberg, Ells told his father that visiting a McDonald’s chicken farm in Arkansas was “absolutely the most disgusting thing he’d ever seen in his life.”

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