It looks like the second Savannah Chipotle will be opening in late September 2014. The second local store will be at 318 Mall Blvd., Suite 600, Unit C — that’s near the new Kroger store.

I like Chipotle just fine, but I was unprepared last year for the crush of interest in the chain, which follows stricter standards for animal treatment and other issues involving “food with integrity” than most other chains.

Anyway, I’ve already started getting hits on this website from searches for the opening date of the Southside Savannah store, which will be convenient both to Abercorn Street and Hodgson Memorial. So here’s an embed of my Twitter exchange today with Chipotle:

@billdawers If all goes well, we're on pace to open at the end of September. We hope we'll see you there! -Skyllo

— Chipotle (@ChipotleTweets) August 31, 2014

So then all of you who have been incessantly searching for the opening date can give up on Google and actually just go to the restaurant.

But you might want to give it a day or two so that you’re not all frustrated by the lines, especially with the staff working through the kinks, and by the parking crunch that will no doubt ensue if everyone goes at once.

Seriously, take a look at these stats for this blog over the last 30 days, with search terms and the number of hits generated by them:

Really, what the hell?

I’ve never seen this kind of mania about the opening of a new business since . . . the recent opening of Whole Foods Market right next door.

Some of the interest in Chipotle is no doubt due to the corporate policies in terms of food quality and ethics, but there wouldn’t be this sort of interest if Savannahians hadn’t tried the chain in other cities and weren’t excited about the taste and value.

I’m glad readers come to this blog for some of the posts exploring complex issues like residential density and the housing market.

But my blog statistics tell me what people really want to know.

They want to know when Chipotle on Victory Drive will be opening.

A post from early August about the opening date has gotten over 700 views, including a couple of dozen every day this week.

Well over 100 people have found that post by searching for some combination of “chipotle” and “savannah”.

So I bugged Chipotle’s pretty amazingly responsive Twitter team for an update. Sometimes you just have to give the people what they want.

Here’s the latest:

@billdawers Should be mid to late Sept.  Stopping by and asking the manager is the #1 best way to nail down a date though.  -Wayne

— Chipotle (@ChipotleTweets) September 3, 2013

So look for an opening date in mid- to late-September to be announced soon. I’ll pop my head in and ask the next time I’m over that way.

The new Chipotle in Savannah will open in the same plaza as Whole Foods Market.