Tag: Chipotle

You can play Tony Hawk’s new video game early just by eating his burrito at Chipotle

This reminds me of those Pizza Hut demo disc days

Eating burritos is always an awesome time, no matter what way you cut it. They’re amazing. But eating burritos and playing video games? That’s an undefeated combination that has proven to be tried and true for decades now.

Let’s take it one step further, though. Eating burritos to play a new video game!?!? Come on. Talk about cutting the burrito and eating it, too. That sounds too good to be true. But it’s for real.

Chipotle released a new Tony Hawk burrito on Monday. And the first 2,000 customers to order the burrito through Chipotle’s app or through their website get a code to play Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 1 and 2.

It’s too good to be true, but it’s really happening.

All you have to do to get it done is order the Tony Hawk Burrito via the Chipotle mobile app or the website. If you’re one of the first 2,000 people to get it, they’ll send you an e-mail with a code to access the demo versions of Pro Skater 1 and 2.

It’s really that simple. Chipotle has more details on the website, but that’s the gist of it.

Man, this is taking it all the way back in the day to the days when Playstation demo discs came with the weekend Pizza Hut orders.

Pro Skater 1 and 2 are both classic games. Certified classics. You’d stay up into the wee hours of the morning just grinding on these games trying to make it to the next level.

And not only are they back, but gamers also get to experience them in this classic way through the demo. It’s awesome.

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R.J. Hampton was gifted a Chipotle Celebrity card – is Ainge involved?

RJ Hampton and Danny Ainge evidently have more in common than just a love for basketball.

Could Danny Ainge’s favorite fast food joint know something we don’t?

The Boston Celtics team president is well known to be national Tex-Mex burrito chain Chipotle’s biggest fan — so much so his staff have related it has more or less become the franchise’s unofficial cafeteria, with the Celtics head honcho a permanent fixture at the popular fast food chain.

Ainge even owns one of the coveted Celebrity Cards, which grant holders their tortilla-oriented cuisine free of charge.

As part of a promotional drive, the chain recently issued a certain 2020 NBA Draft entrant a Celebrity Card of his own to use now that he’s back in the U.S., the prospect being Texas native R.J. Hampton.

The former five-star point guard prospect eschewed the usual route to the NBA by way of a detour in Australia and New Zealand’s National Basketball League (NBL), playing for the latter country’s Breakers franchise based in Auckland.

The Celtics Wire profiled Hampton being mocked to the Celtics with the 17th overall pick by Sports Illustrated’s Jeremy Woo at the start of June; today, Hampton revealed his new Celebrity Card status on his Instagram.

Is there a connection? Quite probably only a marketing campaign, but a smart one, if we’re being honest.

Ainge’s favorite lunch spot knows their audience, and the Celebrity Card concept is low-key some brilliant marketing.

It was probably only a matter of time before we started seeing it pop up elsewhere in the NBA (and NBA hopefuls).

Whether Danny himself had a hand in this remains to be seen, but if nothing else, we know what will be on the menu for any virtual pre-draft interviews.

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Indianapolis Colts’ Darius Leonard: I was racially profiled in South Carolina Chipotle

Colts’ linebacker Darius Leonard says he and a group he was with at a restaurant in South Carolina were racially profiled.

Indianapolis Colts star linebacker Darius Leonard posted on Instagram Thursday he and four other people were racially profiled at a restaurant in Florence, SC.

Leonard says he was eating a meal with three Black friends and a woman of mixed race when the manager of the Chipotle approached the table.

“We’re sitting there, just casually eating,” Leonard said in the video. “We’re away from everybody … Toward the end of our meal, the manager came up with a terrible attitude and asked us ‘Do we have a problem?’

The manager said to Leonard and his friends a “white guy complained we was verbally abusing him, talking trash to him, and it was basically a lie. And we basically got kicked out of Chipotle because of that. And they said they were going to call the police.

“That’s what being Black in America is right. Us not doing anything wrong. Going out to eat with your family, just trying to spend a little quality time and you can’t enjoy eating anymore.”

 

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Leonard, 24, who played college ball at South Carolina State and was a second-round pick in 2018, continued.”We’re talking about Black Lives Matter and for the guy to look at us and lie and laugh in our face as we walk out and the manger … just come up here and just basically kick us out of Chipotle?! And, we felt like he was very disrespectful and that’s the white privilege that we are talking about.

” … We are tired of this,” Leonard says … “I’m telling you what I go through as a Black man in America. Ya’ll don’t understand what I go through.”

“Ya’ll see the police killing us. Ya’ll seeing all the injustices that we go through. I live it. Day in and day out. And, I’m f*cking tired of it. Yes, I’m upset. I’m tired of it.”

The Indianapolis Star reached out to Chipotle but was unable to get through.