Chipotle Grill's Guacamole Recipe

100,000 avocados are used every day in their guacamole. Here's the secret recipe, according to an ex-employee.

You might have to scale this one down, unless you're making a massive batch. But when have you ever had too much guacamole?

Avocados (48 normal sized) Red onions (2 1/2 cups diced) Cilantro (2 1/2 cups 1/4" flake) Jalapenos (1 cup diced) Lime juice (Citrus juice, 1/2 cup ((FIRST BEFORE MASHING!))) Salt (3 tbsp)

Sometimes it needs another 1/2 tbsp of salt, I usually put less cilantro in mine. I work at chipotle.

While this is technically designed for a chain that goes through 97,000 pounds of avocados every day, a Chipotle fan website has a recipe for a smaller serving.

The word "chipotle" comes from the Náhuatl word, "chilpoctli" and means "smoked chili."

Náhuatl was the language of the Aztecs and came to dominate the region of Central Mexico since about seventh century A.D. The Náhuatl word for a type of smoked chiliended up becoming the word for the Mexican chili pepper we know and love today.

The founder originally started Chipotle just to make enough money to open a fine dining establishment.

After attending the Culinary Institute of America, founder Steve Ells originally wanted to own a fancy, white table cloth restaurant, so he started Chipotle to make the money to do so. Even after the initial expansions from the first Chipotle restaurant in Denver (which was converted from an old ice cream store) Ells still was thinking about cashing out and going into the fine dining business. When the burrito business took off extremely quickly, Ells decided to stick with burritos.

Chipotle went with a minimalist store design because it lacked the money for something fancier.

"I didn't have much money, so we had to make these very simple parts from the hardware store work in order to create the design," said Ells of the simple and now iconic decor.

The founder of the company, which is now estimated to now be worth over $15 billion, originally had to take an $80,000 loan from his father to open the first restaurant.

Ells still recalls "hauling his butt to the hardware store to buy the plywood, barn metal and conduit to make Chipotle's often-mimicked utilitarian light fixtures."