Workers at an Upper Manhattan Chipotle restaurant say they’ve been fighting a losing battle against hordes of hungry rats — and a management team that let the infestation get so bad that four staffers have been bitten by the massive rodents.
The besieged fast-casual Mexican joint on Broadway in Washington Heights closed to customers indefinitely late last month, but only after rats chewed through the wiring of a computer system that handled orders, two employees told The Post.
In the meantime, those workers are still going into the store to clean, in an effort to keep the vermin at bay.
They say they’ve killed dozens of the rodents by stomping on them, smacking them with broom handles, dropping boxes on them and various other medieval methods of extermination.
“All of the workers had horror stories about the rats, especially some of the women who would change before and after work in the back of the store,” said Luis Gustavo Paulino Ruiz, another store employee who was recently bitten.
He said he notified management of the issues, as did other workers, but nothing seemed to change, at least right away.
Meanwhile, the rats became increasingly brazen and seemed to be multiplying.
Employees were forced to move avocados into the cooler, and some workers even refused to set foot in the basement for fear of a rat attack.
The first employee was bitten in October, but the store remained open for at least a month until another rat chomped the hand of the store’s general manager on Nov. 23, workers said.
Exclusive | NYC Chipotle besieged by rats feasting on avocados, biting employees
The besieged fast-casual Mexican joint on Broadway near West 169th Street in Washington Heights closed to customers indefinitely late last month, but only after rats chewed through the wiring of a …
