Two Catalysts For Chipotles Going Forward

[VicBee]

Do the Chinese eat Mexican food? I thought yum was all about kfc and Pizza Hut there.

Good question. KFC was going to do well because Chinese love fried chicken and are brand driven. But they are also patriotic and tension with the US will empty out those KFCs in a flash.
Chinese generally don't like beans and potatoes, considered peasant food, but they eat rice. Also, they don't eat with their fingers; fork and spoon may do, but chopsticks are still preferred.
Chipotle is Americanized Mexican food. Chinese aren't drawn to Mexican food like in the US with its high Latino population. It would be interesting to find out how many westernized Chinese eat a Chipotle in the US and what they eat. Catering to Chinese palates is more complex than Americans.

 

[vanzandt]

Good question. KFC was going to do well because Chinese love fried chicken and are brand driven. But they are also patriotic and tension with the US will empty out those KFCs in a flash.
Chinese generally don't like beans and potatoes, considered peasant food, but they eat rice. Also, they don't eat with their fingers; fork and spoon may do, but chopsticks are still preferred.
Chipotle is Americanized Mexican food. Chinese aren't drawn to Mexican food like in the US with its high Latino population. It would be interesting to find out how many westernized Chinese eat a Chipotle in the US and what they eat. Catering to Chinese palates is more complex than Americans.

Interesting.
I don't eat KFC, maybe once in the last 20 years and I think that was at a wake. Or was it at a pool party, I forget, but do they really eat fried chicken and not use their hands?

 

[VicBee]

Interesting.
I don't eat KFC, maybe once in the last 20 years and I think that was at a wake. Or was it at a pool party, I forget, but do they really eat fried chicken and not use their hands?

You'd be amazed at the foods Americans eat with their fingers that others would use fork and knife or chopsticks.
Meat in general in China and in most of greater Asia is precut into small enough pieces, often attached to a bone making it awkward for non accustomed people to eat. The only variation are fried chicken wings kept unbroken. And yes, they are picked with and held with chopsticks.

 

[vanzandt]

You'd be amazed at the foods Americans eat with their fingers that others would use fork and knife or chopsticks.
Meat in general in China and in most of greater Asia is precut into small enough pieces, often attached to a bone making it awkward for non accustomed people to eat. The only variation are fried chicken wings kept unbroken. And yes, they are picked with and held with chopsticks.

Well if they can eat chicken wings with chopsticks....

VEGETARIAN BOWL

 

[VicBee]

Well if they can eat chicken wings with chopsticks....

VEGETARIAN BOWL

Yeah, that was my point no way that would sell well in China, as is. It would have to be in a bowl and the carne asada would need to be cut with the bone on.. no such thing as vegetarian in China

 

[M.W.]

Saag Paneer...

I was born in India. Indians do love pizza but it is really because of the tomato sauce and hot taste from the crushed pepper. Most Indian food has onions, tomato & ghee (clarified butter) along with a lot of spices (cumin, turmeric, cardamom, etc.). There is really no cheese in Indian cuisine except the popular Punjabi dish known as Mattar Paneer (peas & chese).

In actualtiy the most popular foreign food in India is really Chinese food since it has a lot sugar, oil & spices. In fact if you go the cities there is a type of restaurant called Chinese Indian food -- Chinese food made in Indian style.

 

[nitrene]

Saag Paneer

Right. Yet another food from Punjab.

In fact most of the conventional Indian restaurants in the UK , Germany & US are in fact Punjabi Restaurants. In the US in recent years with the rise of Computer Programmers there are a lot more South Indian restaurants mainly from Karnataka. When I first came to the US (NYC) in 1973 the main restaurants were Punjabi and South Indian cuisine from the state of Tamil Nadu. South Indian food is strictly vegetarian with an emphasis on rice & lentil.

 

[vanzandt]

CMG----> $1317

Near term... a 10:1 split would do wonders I think. It would go from from $137 to $150 in a blink. And up from there when the markets calm down some.

One thing I will say, and I've said it before, even in this market... I would never hold CMG short overnight. You could wake up to a real bad morning.
~vz

ALL TIME HIGH
--->$1975