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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
Alaina Demopoulos

‘Stop shoving phones in our face’: Chipotle staff are sick of TikTokers trying to catch them ‘skimping’

people work behind the counter in a chipotle
Chipotle locations have struggled to staff up amid a nationwide staffing shortage. Photograph: Stephen Brashear/AP

When Atulya Dora-Laskey clocks in to her job making tacos, burritos and salad bowls on the line at a Chipotle in Lansing, Michigan, she knows there’s a chance a customer will whip out a camera to film her assembling their lunch. If it does happen, “it’s immediately anxiety-inducing for my co-workers and me,” she said. She finds it “very stressful and dehumanizing” to be filmed at work.

These incidents of filming began last month, after rumors circulated on TikTok and Reddit alleging that Chipotle line workers skimped customers on the chain’s infamously large portion sizes – unless customers filmed workers making their order.

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