Chipotle opens Carbondale store with Chipotlane, adding about 30 jobs

Chipotle opened a new restaurant at 95 Brooklyn St. in Carbondale, adding about 30 jobs and a Chipotlane that changes how the shift runs from the first rush to close. The store opened with daily hours from 10:45 a.m. to 10 p.m., putting a new service point into a town where the former Scotch Motor site had already been marked for both Chipotle and Starbucks.

For crew members, the Chipotlane is more than a curbside feature. It pushes more volume toward digital orders and pickup timing, which puts extra pressure on the make line, the handoff shelf and the people keeping tickets moving. Chipotle said its Chipotlanes are helping improve guest access and convenience while also lifting new-restaurant sales, margins and returns, a sign that this format is now built into the way the company runs stores, not treated as an add-on.

The Carbondale opening fits that bigger buildout. Chipotle opened 334 company-owned restaurants in 2025, including 257 with a Chipotlane, and it expects to open about 350 to 370 restaurants in 2026, with roughly 80% of new company-owned locations including the lane. Digital sales made up 36.7% of food and beverage revenue in 2025, showing how much of the business now depends on mobile ordering and fast pickup instead of only walk-in traffic.

That model matters on the floor because Chipotle controls the whole operation itself. Hiring, training, food-safety routines and promotion paths all sit inside the company-owned system, which can create a more direct path from crew job to lead job when a store is still being built out. Chipotle’s Carbondale jobs page listed openings for a Kitchen Leader and Service Leader at the Brooklyn Street address, a sign that staffing had already started before the restaurant opened.

The company has also leaned on hiring and internal advancement in past growth pushes. It said it planned to hire 19,000 additional employees for its 2024 burrito season, and in a 2023 hiring campaign it said 90% of restaurant management roles were filled internally. With more than 4,000 restaurants systemwide at the end of 2025 and a 1,000th Chipotlane milestone announced in November 2024, the Carbondale store adds another test of the same formula: faster digital throughput, tighter shift coordination and a clearer path for workers who can move quickly into leadership.