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Chipotle adding hipster food item to menu

Chipotle is trying to spic🧸e up its menu with a trendy superfood – quinoa.

The Tex-Mex chain is trying the new grain in its New Y🌟ork City test kitchen🗹 as an alternative to its iconic lime-cilantro rice.

“The quinoa is made with red and gold quinoa tossed with a little citrus juice, cumin, and freshly chopped cilantro,” Chris Arnold, a Chipotle representative, . “We are recommending that added to a salad or in place of rice in another entree.”

This new menu item comes as a recent break from Chipotle’s staunch resistance to complicating 🅷its menu with additional items, which started ꦕin September when the fast food restaurant began serving queso nationwide.

The menu changes may be a sign of things to come as Chipotle’s founder, Steve Ells, said the company was considering “salads with different kinds of grains,” as well as “traditional things” like nachos and quesadillas, Business Insider reported.

Chipotle has been struggling financially after ൩a series of food-related illnesses were traced back to the chain, causing stocks to take a nosedive. Stocks have been increasing recently, despite th꧋e critically panned queso.

No word on if the quinoa will be rolled out na𝓡tionwide or remain in the test kitchen as a healthier option.