Sweet news for New Yorkers: one of the first Crumbs Bake Shop locations to re-open under new owners will be the Columbus Square location, Side Dish 𝔉has learned.
The bakery has come to an agree🍌ment with the landlord at 795 Columbus Ave. and is sl🎃ated to open next month with offerings beyond cupcakes to include coffee and other drinks.
Crumbs abr♏uptly closed down — with no notice to employees, landlords or customers — in July and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection shortly thereafter.
CNBC TV personality Marcus Lemonis, who hosts a show t✤hat tries to turn around failing businesses, and Dippin’ Dots owner Fischer Enterprises LLC won a bankruptcy auction for the chain with a $6.5 million bid.
Crumbs, founded in 2003, had a successful run until the cupcake craze cooled. By then, overexpansion anﷺd a failure to diversify beyond giant cupcak𓆉es caused it to crumble.
Under its new owners, Crumbs pl🧔ans to re-open only 28 of its 49 loꦕcations in New York, Los Angeles, Chicago and Washington.
There🎀 is no news yet on whether a Crumbs will continue to work with Melita ꧅Bakery, in the Bronx, which has been with Crumbs since 2003.
Along with Crumbs, a new hamburger joint is also coming to Columbus S🧜quare.
Bareburger, aꦐn organic, all-natural line, is launching in 1,875 square feet in four to six weeks, Side Dish learned.
It will bℱe a welco𝓡me addition to the Columbus Square complex, whose shops include Sephora, Michael’s, Home Goods and Yogurtland.
Bar🌳eburger, which launched in Astoria i🌟n 2009, has 18 locations, from Manhattan to Ohio.
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