From the notebook of an editor at the New York Post who interviewed Melvin Paulino, an employee at a Chipotle restaurant in New York City, in December. Interpreted on-site from the Spanish.

Six months ago the problems with the rats started. The first thing we noticed was that they really liked avocados. They were gnawing their way into boxes and taking bites out of them. I was disgusted, we were all disgusted. The manager would tell us to throw away any boxes the rats had gotten into, but after a while it got to the point where they would just…