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Ok, if you don’t already know how much I love Chipotle, please read this to get the full understanding.

So, currently the closest Chipotle restaurants to Oklahoma City are in Witchita, KS.  There are three of them there, at around 154 miles away. 

Just slightly farther out are the multitude of them lining the North side of Dallas, even one in Denton proper.  These ring in at about 160-170 miles out.  Of course, I frequent these most often as I rarely have any reason to go to Witchita.

But, if you had been paying close attention to the Chipotle website over the past year, you would have noticed that both Tulsa and Oklahoma City had pins in them on the “future development” map they used to have up (the map has now been removed).  No further info was given.  Just a couple of pins showing that they did indeed have the intent to build here.

And if you’ve paid even closer attention over the past couple of months, you may have taken a look at the Chipotle job boards where you would have seen jobs advertised in Tulsa, indicating that a restaurant opening is just right around the bend.

Well, now we’ve a location.  It’s not open yet, but 10902 E.71st St. in Tulsa is about to become the closest Chipotle to OKC at a mere 100 miles away, cutting almost an hour off of the gulf separating Oklahoma City from all kinds of tasty.

Not quite close enough to accommodate lunch hours though, so we can only hope that an OKC location will be coming quite soon. 

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