From the “the cover up may be worse than the crime” department:
Chipotle accused of covering up for manager who put hidden camera in women’s bathroom.
A Chipotle Mexican Grill in Texas is being accused of covering up the actions of a manager who reportedly hid a camera in the restaurant’s bathroom.
According to a lawsuit filed this week in the District Court of Brazaria County, Texas, the plantiffs allege that store manager Joanny Castillo, 18, repeatedly installed a video-recording spy camera in the women’s bathroom area and, when informed of the Castillo’s actions, the restaurant’s corporate office tried to cover up the incidents.
…The camera was first discovered on Feb. 24, when an employee at the restaurant claims she discovered the camera pointing directly at her while she used the toilet. She suspected a Chipotle male manager of hiding the camera, but the manager claimed a customer left it by accident and he would return it to the owner.
However, three days later, the same employee found the camera hiding in the bathroom again, “discreetly placed under the restroom sink in exposed polybutylene piping,” as stated in the lawsuit.
This time, the employee removed the camera and gave it to the general manager. When other employees learned of the incident, they demanded the camera be turned over to the police, but claim the general manager was reluctant and attempted to persuade them not to call the authorities.