Open between 235 and 250 new restaurants

Delivered by the deadline

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Announced: 8 Feb 2022
Due: 31 Dec 2022
Delivered: 31 Dec 2022

Deadline
Met
Late
Not met
Today

What the company said

“Between 235 to 250 new restaurant openings (including 5 to 10 relocations to add a Chipotlane), which assumes construction and permit delays related to COVID-19 don’t worsen”

SourceChipotle Mexican Grill Form 8-K press release, 2022-02-08
FilingSEC filing index
Deadline as statedFor 2022
Deadline used31 Dec 2022, the last day of the stated period
TypeFacility
Permanent referenceKI-C-2022-CMG-012490
Cite as https://keptindex.org/c/KI-C-2022-CMG-012490/ — this address never changes.

What we found

Evidence strength A What the grades mean

Chipotle reported opening 236 new restaurants during the 2022 fiscal year, which falls within the committed range of 235 to 250.

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Chipotle Mexican Grill 10-K filed 2023-02-09 Regulatory filing · published 9 Feb 2023 · retrieved 17 Oct 2026 · kept permanently by the SEC · fingerprint 22bcb3ef1989
“During the year ended December 31, 2022, we opened 236 new restaurants” ✓ confirmed on the page

Market reaction: the shares moved -1.9% against the S&P 500 over the three sessions around the disclosure (8 Feb 2023 to 13 Feb 2023). What this measures

Checked 17 Oct 2026.

Commitment lineage

Every time the company restated this commitment. The original is never changed, and the outcome is always measured against version 1.

Deadline drift +365 days
Scope drift +8.5%
3 versions

Version 1 · original · stated 8 Feb 2022

Deadline 31 Dec 2022 (“For 2022”) · target 235 restaurants
Version 2 · stated 26 Apr 2022

Deadline 31 Dec 2022 (“For 2022”) · target 250 restaurants

“Between 235 to 250 new restaurant openings (including 5 to 10 relocations to add a Chipotlane), which assumes construction and permit delays don’t worsen”
Source for this version
Version 3 · stated 25 Oct 2022

Deadline 31 Dec 2023 (“For 2023”) · target 255 restaurants

“255 to 285 new restaurant openings”
Source for this version

Commitment DNA

The structured record of this commitment. Fields the company did not state are left blank rather than guessed.

Event type: Facility other
Indicative materiality: Medium rules
Action: Open
Deliverable: new restaurants
Target: 235 restaurants
In the company’s control: Medium
Specificity: High
Conditional: Yes: assumes construction and permit delays related to COVID-19 don’t worsen
Depends on: Regulatory, Supplier

How this entry was checked

Commitment recordedThe company's words were matched word for word against the filing.
First checkAn AI model, Gemini (Google), read the company's later filings and recorded the outcome with a quoted passage.
Second check: agreesA different AI model, Claude (Anthropic), re-read the evidence without being told the outcome and reached the same answer.

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