“I was always interested in cooking; it was always a hobby of mine.” — Steve Ells Quote

I was always interested in cooking; it was always a hobby of mine.

We want to show all of our customers that the industry standards that we had been employing before - which are considered great standards - were not good enough.

We have two day-parts, lunch and dinner. We don't have breakfast. We don't have drive-thru. We don't have late night. We don't have 24-hours.

For too long, great food has really only been available in high-end restaurants and specialty food markets, but Chipotle is making the same gourmet quality food available and affordable so everyone can eat better.

The first Chipotle was intended to be my source of funding for a full-scale restaurant, a means to an end. But it turned out to be more successful than I ever imagined.

I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.

I did 'Midnight's Children' and 'Cooking with Stella' when I was at the peak of my career.

I love cooking with wine.

When you have good ingredients, cooking doesn't require a lot of instruction because you can never go very wrong.

My career at Microsoft really was getting in the way of my cooking.