STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Chipotle at Staten Island Mall abruptly closed Monday evening, sparking concern among customers and chatter on social media. Readers contacted the Advance\/SILive.com food department for answers.<\/p>\n
The company did not respond to comment by deadline, but its website lists the Mall location at 2655 Richmond Ave. as \u201ctemporarily closed.\u201d A recorded message at the restaurant says it will reopen at 10:45 a.m. The site currently holds an \u201cA\u201d grade <\/a>from the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene.<\/p>\n Earlier this year, rumors circulated online<\/a> claiming Chipotle was shutting down nationwide. Those reports were false. According to USA Today<\/a>, the confusion began when a Spanish outlet published a story about a Chipotle spinoff, Farmesa Fresh Eatery, closing \u2014 mistakenly using Chipotle\u2019s logo.<\/p>\n Chipotle\u2019s third-quarter report highlights strong growth<\/a>: 84 new restaurants opened, including 64 with Chipotlane drive-thrus and two international partner locations. One of those openings was right here on Staten Island: the Bricktown Way spot in Charleston, which debuted in early June<\/a>. That addition brought the borough\u2019s total to three Chipotle outlets, joining the Mall and the Hylan Boulevard location in New Dorp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 Chipotle at Staten Island Mall abruptly closed Monday evening, sparking concern among customers and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":{"0":"post-64921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-staten-island","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-city","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-staten-island","12":"tag-staten-island-headlines","13":"tag-staten-island-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}