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title: "Chipotle Has Found Its New Head of Food Safety"
url: https://burnaze.com/article/37b80f44-8179-4540-898a-9f81b97957f5
source: "1851 Franchise"
original_url: https://1851franchise.com/chipotle-has-found-its-new-head-of-food-safety-2709075
category: "Mexican"
industry: "Restaurants"
segment: "Mexican"
topics: ["Operations"]
published: 2019-02-04T18:13:01.000Z
modified: 2026-11-01T02:30:39.170Z
image: https://newimage.1851franchise.com/cdn-cgi/image/quality=85,format=webp,width=1280,height=720/story/featureImage/992a70287b1cc22ebdb30752f357869b4067.jpg
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# Chipotle Has Found Its New Head of Food Safety

**TL;DR:** Chipotle Mexican Grill has hired Kerry Bridges as its new vice president of food safety, replacing James Marsden who will retire later this year. Bridges previously worked at Walmart as senior director of supplier food safety.

*originally published in 1851 Franchise on 2019-02-04. [Read the original](https://1851franchise.com/chipotle-has-found-its-new-head-of-food-safety-2709075).*

## Story

Chipotle Mexican Grill has hired Kerry Bridges as its vice president of food safety, according to a Fast Casual report.

Bridges’ previous experience includes being the senior director of supplier food safety for Walmart, and she will replace Chipotle’s current head of food safety, James Marsden, when he retires later this year, according to the article. Chipotle announced Marsden’s upcoming retirement in October 2018.

The brand has been working hard to combat food poisoning-related issues in its restaurants. Its more recent preventative measures have included implementing the food safety technology platform Zenput and a system-wide food safety retraining.

## Entities

- 1851 Franchise (publication)
- Restaurants (sector)
- Walmart (company)
- executive hiring (topic)
- Chipotle Mexican Grill (company)
- food safety (topic)
- retirement (topic)

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Originally reported by 1851 Franchise (https://1851franchise.com/chipotle-has-found-its-new-head-of-food-safety-2709075). Summarized by Burnaze (https://burnaze.com/article/37b80f44-8179-4540-898a-9f81b97957f5).