I’ve spent a lot of time and effort relaying to fellow Americans over the years, in as engaging a manner as possible, the things of interest I’ve seen on the other side of the world as an expat.
Here, just to shake things up, I’d like to offer something I’ve never seen in these parts: brawls in fast food establishments — or shopping malls, or gas stations, or public high school cafeterias — over allegedly incorrect orders or some other slight offense that could probably otherwise be resolved with a few polite words.
Never.
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You might have seen a video that went viral over the Christmas holiday of a rather large woman commandeering the makeline at a D.C. Chipotle and then slapping the hell out of an employee who tried to stop her.
Interestingly, this latest ordeal is just one of many violent incidents occurring at Chipotles from coast to coast in 2024 alone — not to mention any other fine dining establishment.Let’s survey the phenomenon.
Via Fox 2 Detroit, April 2024 (emphasis added):
A Chipotle employee in Southfield, Michigan was shot in the leg by a customer Friday night, police sources told FOX 2. The shooting stemmed from an argument over guacamole.
The shooting took place at a Chipotle on Evergreen Road near Civic Center Drive, around 6:50 p.m.
"It was loud, and then we all just ran out," said Michael Beals, a customer who captured the incident on video. "I wasn’t really thinking… there was going to be a shot, but there was."
The victim, a 21-year-old man, is in stable condition, according to a release from Southfield police. He was transported to a hospital, where he is being treated for the non-life-threatening injury.
"I was just eating a bowl and I heard shouting. And then I looked over, they're arguing. One of the workers went to the back, I don't know why, and then when he was in the back, the customer walked around the counter, tried to grab his food and put it in a bag," said Thomas Huber, another witness. "Then the employee came back, and they started fighting, and then we heard a gunshot and just ran out as quick as we could."
The suspected shooter is a 31-year-old Detroit man, according to police. He was located and taken into custody shortly after fleeing the scene.
But wait, there’s more Chipotle chaos!
Via ABC 4 News, September 2024 (emphasis added):
An altercation at a Chipotle in Mount Pleasant led to the arrest of one, according to the Mount Pleasant police Department.
Officers arrived to the scene of the reported assault Monday afternoon, and located the suspect, assistant manager of the location, Jaqueennia Loyd*.
Loyd appeared to officers as being visibly upset and agitated.
She reported to officers that she was working in the kitchen when a disgruntled customer came in wanting to know where the rest of their order was. Loyd explained to the unidentified male that the order would be out when it was ready.
In response, the male then took the food in the bag and tossed it behind the counter in frustration.
Loyd then told the unidentified male that she was not going to be disrespected and picked up the food from the bag and began throwing the ingredients towards the male.
The male then left the area and has not contacted the police department further about the matter.
A witness who was caught in the crossfire in the incident stated that Loyd was being snappy and agitated with customers. He told officers that the unknown male tossed the bag behind the counter but wouldn't consider the bag to have been thrown at Loyd.
Upon further questioning of other witnesses, they confirmed that Loyd appeared to be the aggressor in this case.
Officers checked Loyd's record in the process of analyzing the incident and found that she had a warrant out for her arrest in Richland County and was wanted for Fraud.
Loyd was placed under arrest and transported to the Charleston County Jail.
It would, indeed, to emphasize, be inconceivable that such a scene would unfold in Thailand, or Vietnam, or Japan, or anywhere in this region.
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One of these things is not like the other.
Why the pandemic of Chipotle altercations in the United States and not in Asia?
I’ll leave it up to you, dear reader, to suss out why that might be; I wouldn’t want to violate Google’s “community standards” censorship regime or whatever they’re calling it these days, so as to avoid getting PJ Media more heavily censored by Big Tech than it already is.
