How Chipotle's 'Ava Cado' AI Slashed Time-to-Hire by 75% — and What High-Growth Employers Can Learn
Chipotle deployed a conversational AI assistant called Ava Cado across 3,500 restaurants — cutting time-to-hire by 75% and nearly doubling application completions. The key insight: the bottleneck wasn't candidate quality. It was application friction.