ROCKFORD — A new Chipotle restaurant with a drive-thru pickup window is planned for the southwest corner of East State Street and Arnold Avenue, in front of the State Street Square retail center that includes Flow and other businesses.
Real estate developer First Midwest Group has requested a special-use permit from the city to build a 2,325-square-foot restaurant in front of the shopping center. The restaurant would have indoor sit-down seating and a drive-thru window for picking up online and mobile app orders. There is no menu board for drive-up ordering.
“When you receive a notification your food is ready, you drive up to that site window, pick up your food and go,” Cassandra Crandall, assistant general counsel for First Midwest Group, told members of the city’s Zoning Board of Appeals on Tuesday. “So there are no lines of cars waiting to take their order, and then waiting for their food to be prepared.”…