Thursday, May 08, 2008

Chipotle: no dope burritos, no dope cycling team

Great brand alignment. (Congrats to the team for making it to the Tour de France, too.)
"This is a team that's very vigorous about their drug testing and keeping their bodies clean, and that's very much our philosophy," said Jim Adams, Chipotle's executive marketing director.

3 comments:

hollywood said...

i'll have that burrito anyday! yumm!!

Jordan said...

i'm as big a fan of Slipstream-Chipotle as you can get, but you're kidding yourself if you think there's a ProTour team in cycling that's not on dope. it's not physiologically possible.

Andy Bosselman said...

I assumed as much but, from a marketing standpoint, doesn't Chipotle win either way?

Let's say there's a high-profile revelation that someone on the team dopes. That gives Chipotle the opportunity to publicly walk away from the team... just like they're doing with conventionally farmed meat and dairy products.