Downtown’s Metrotech is getting wrapped up in chain restaurants.
The Chipotle at One Metrotech Center will fold its first burritos by March 31, according to spokespeople from Chipotle and Forest City Ratner, the development company behind Metrotech Center.
The Chipotle restaurant is currently hiring for multiple positions and has applied for a license to serve booze.
Metrotech Center opened in 1992 as the mega-developer’s first major Brooklyn project and houses a host of big-name offices, this paper’s chief among them. As far as ground-floor chains go, the 11-tower complex is already home to an Au Bon Pain, a Starbucks, a Five Guys Famous Burgers and Fries, a Starbucks, and a Subway.
Chipotle was founded in 1993 by a Californian named Steve Ells and touts the virtues of its fresh ingredients and free-range meats, but do not be lulled into health-nut complacency — a burrito there can easily run 1,000 calories.
The Chipotle will be the borough’s third and the space it is taking previously housed a Chinese restaurant referred to by employees of this paper as “worst-case scenario.”
