I replied:

"Couple blocks from the 283 7th Avenue Chipotle there is a place that is called Taco Express. For $1.60 they make 105-gram taco that includes hard/crunchy tortilla, seasoned beef, lettuce, cheese, tomatoes and they also throw in a 30-mL dixie cup with cap of salsa. I don't know about the quality of their ingredients but I do know that their tacos tasted great and that they make everything on site: tortilla machine was making tortillas, there was some stuff cooking in the cauldron and the kitchen was well-stocked. Overall I think that at the Taco Express they offer great value for the money, the food tastes great and from the number of people that were in line when I was there I think that they have good business. The Chipotle taco was decent, but nothing more. My biggest concern was the white cheese and I asked the prep guy about it and the manager told me that it was a mixture of mozzarella and white cheddar. Anything other than yellow cheddar does not belong on the taco; I had to remove the Chipotle cheese and throw it out: it did not smell, feel or taste right. I went to Chipotle so I could get a sense of it and the end result is that I did not like it, and that is fine for me because I learned something from this experience. I will have to decline your offer for a full order of tacos just out of the principal because I experienced the Chipotle and learned a lesson.

I would like to suggest that Chipotle would use the portion control utensils so the food would be uniform, the customers would not feel cheated and that the store would know how much goes into every product. There are lots of different quality portion control utensils such as spoodles, dishers and Fifo bottles. From my online research on Chipotle I found out that a lot of customers complaint that there is not enough of ingredients in their orders and that they often request for more ingredients. With portion control utensils everyone would get the same amount of ingredients. In my case when I ordered the taco, the prep guy used a metal tong to scoop and place the meat and for the rest (lettuce and cheese) the other prep guy just used his hands, this is definitely not a portion control and I can see how people would complaint about not getting a fair amount of ingredients since the prep person can decide who gets what amount and there can be issues with favoritism for preferred customers.

There are several menu boards at the 283 7th Avenue Chipotle location, and the rightmost menu board is missing the pricing for all the items (including taco). I've been dealing with these kinds of issues for over 2 years and a good example would be a Papa Johns location that is just 2 blocks away from this Chipotle: they have this $0.99 slice of pizza special that they advertise on a street corner, but the price goes up to $2.50 after 6:00 PM and they did not have the pricing posted for the slice of pizza, only for the whole pies. I contacted Papa Johns and pointed this out to them, they told that they will fix it, a couple of weeks passed with no progress so I let the DCA of NYC know about this issue, a week later the Papa Johns location got fined and received citation, 2 days later the pricing was up on the menu board. Another issue was with Taco Bell in Brooklyn, they had 12 out of 26 items that were missing the pricing, I let the store manager know about this and that he should fix it, a week passed with no progress so I called the DCA and pointed this out. Couple of days later Taco Bell got fined and cited and their franchisee manager called me and told how regretful he was. Next day some items were masked out with black tape and the pricing was added. Basically the DCA sends in the inspector to the designated location and he checks if the complaint is valid, if the restaurant is at fault than they get fined and also get a citation. I don't expect Chipotle to change their all menu board, but just those ones who are in NYC and are missing the pricing on the menu items offered. The only products that are exempt from this law in NYC are medical products and cosmetics.

Here is the law description that I copied straight from the government website:

" § 20–707 Definitions. (a) "Consumer commodity" shall be defined as any article, good, merchandise, product or commodity of any kind or class produced, distributed or offered for retail sale for consumption by individuals, or for personal, household or family purposes. For the purposes of this subchapter, drugs, medicines and cosmetics shall not be considered consumer commodities.
(b) "Price per measure" shall be defined as the retail price of a consumer commodity expressed in terms of the retail price of such commodity per such unit of weight, standard measure or standard number of units as the commissioner shall designate by regulation."

-Alex