If You Order Chipotle Online, You Are Probably Getting Less Food

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2024-11-20 13:30:18

Here’s a quick one. The question posed here is “do you get less food if you order your Chipotle order online versus in person?” There are plenty of posts going back years claiming that their orders are smaller if they order online.

I happened to be watching a video from YouTuber Zackary Smigel who decided to eat nothing but Chipotle for 30 days. One of the interesting things in his video is that he provided his data for 30 consecutive Chipotle visits here. what Zackary might not have known is that he unintentionally created a very nice blocked experiment design. What this means is we can easily identify sources of variation in order weight by controlling for other variables present.

So for every order he made, we can control for whether it was in-person or online, the type of meat used in the order, the store it originated from, and the type of food (either a burrito or a bowl).

Let’s answer this question. To start, we can look at the general distribution of weights. Below we see that the median weight of an order is just under 800 grams, or about 1.7 pounds. The largest order he got was a whopping 2.3 pounds, and the smallest was 1.1 pounds.