Summary

  • Chipotle has launched an ad in the metaverse via the gaming platform Roblox in a first for the restaurant industry.
  • Titled Unfolded, the animated short film is intended to promote sustainable agriculture, with the first 50,000 viewers to watch the ad being offered free food.
  • To coincide with the ad, Chipotle is donating 5m pledged towards young farmers in 2021.
  • The film shows an allegorical Chipotle truck delivering real ingredients to one of its restaurants.
  • Viewers are taken through a paper world based inside a Chipotle bag that transforms into a vibrant farm.
  • Grammy-nominated singer Halsey covered We Are the Rainbow for the soundtrack.

By Dean Takahashi

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