{"id":6024,"date":"2013-08-02T19:26:43","date_gmt":"2013-08-02T23:26:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/?p=6024"},"modified":"2013-09-24T16:59:11","modified_gmt":"2013-09-24T20:59:11","slug":"chipotle-shooting-for-early-september-opening-in-savannah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/08\/02\/chipotle-shooting-for-early-september-opening-in-savannah\/","title":{"rendered":"Chipotle opening in mid-September in Savannah"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"10\" style=\"float: right; margin:10px 0 10px 10px;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:600px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"8268618372\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n<p><del datetime=\"2013-09-24T20:55:33+00:00\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/09\/04\/chipotle-opening-on-savannahs-victory-drive-later-this-month\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for newer post on 9\/4.<\/strong><em><br \/>\n<\/del><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/09\/24\/chipotle-in-savannah-opening-wednesday\/\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> for 9\/24 update.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I first wrote about Chipotle planning to open a store in Savannah in a City Talk column in May: <a href=\"http:\/\/savannahnow.com\/exchange\/2013-05-25\/savannah-increasingly-target-national-chains\" target=\"_blank\">Savannah increasingly a target for national chains<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But considering the excitement on Facebook today about the sign going up for Chipotle on Victory Drive just west of Whole Foods (opening on August 13th), I can only conclude that most people don&#8217;t read the fine print in my columns . . .<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chipotle.com\/en-US\/Default.aspx?type=default\" target=\"_blank\">Chipotle<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/zoeskitchen.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Z\u00c3\u00b6es Kitchen<\/a> are both going into a new building that&#8217;s part of the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.retailleasingadvisors.net\/Savannah-SAV\/SAV-1.html\" target=\"_blank\">Victory Station<\/a>, which replaced Backus Cadillac.<\/p>\n<p>I had exchanged tweets with <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChipotleTweets\/with_replies\" target=\"_blank\">ChipotleTweets<\/a> a couple of weeks ago, when the company was still hoping for a late August opening. <\/p>\n<p><del datetime=\"2013-08-21T04:11:25+00:00\">Now, according to Chipotle&#8217;s social media team, they&#8217;re still shooting for around the first of September:<\/del> Updated, 8\/20: Chipotle is looking to a mid-September opening:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/billdawers\">@billdawers<\/a> We&#39;re hoping for mid September ish, if everything goes according to plan, but that could change. &#8211; Joe<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Chipotle (@ChipotleTweets) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChipotleTweets\/statuses\/370029077966516225\">August 21, 2013<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Talk about a revolution in information readily available via social media: now individual consumers can contact large corporations directly and have at least a chance of a substantive and almost immediate reply.<\/p>\n<p>For more on Chipotle, you might want to start with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chipotle.com\/en-us\/fwi\/fwi.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Food with Integrity<\/a> section of the company&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<div class=\"e26b170012445c56d240655bdd03f7bf\" data-index=\"2\" style=\"float: none; margin:0px 0 0px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:inline-block;width:300px;height:250px\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-5595881567027133\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"4374909701\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Click here for newer post on 9\/4. Click here for 9\/24 update. I first wrote about Chipotle planning to open a store in Savannah in a City Talk column in May: Savannah increasingly a target for national chains. But considering&hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-p\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/2013\/08\/02\/chipotle-shooting-for-early-september-opening-in-savannah\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[8],"tags":[1293,1294,232],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1gN9R-1za","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6024"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6024\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6024"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6024"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.billdawers.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6024"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}