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Chip City has closed all of its locations, bringing an abrupt end to the fast-growing cookie chain that had built a sizable footprint on Long Island.
The company announced the shutdown Friday on Instagram, saying that “despite extensive efforts to stabilize our business in the face of significant macro-economic headwinds,” it made the “very difficult decision” to close every Chip City location.
“We are grateful to our dedicated employees and loyal customers who have supported us for the past 10 years,” the company said.
The closure includes Chip City’s Long Island shops. The company had expanded rapidly across the Island in recent years, opening locations in communities including Garden City, Merrick, East Northport, North Babylon, Huntington and Woodbury.
It’s a dramatic reversal for the Queens-born company, which began as a single shop in Astoria in 2017 before growing into a multistate cookie chain.
Chip City had attracted $17.5 million in investment funding as it pursued its expansion, according to previous reports.
The company did not immediately provide additional details about what led to the shutdown beyond citing “significant macro-economic headwinds.”
Chip City’s roots date back to 2017, when childhood friends Theodore Gailas and Peter Phillips began selling cookies out of a small storefront in Astoria. What started as a weekend side hustle quickly drew lines down the block and eventually became a full-time business for the pair.
By September 2022, when Greater Long Island visited Chip City for the opening of its Garden City shop on Franklin Avenue, the company had already grown to 14 locations. Garden City was its second shop on Long Island.
At the time, Gailas told Greater Long Island that the company saw Long Island as a natural fit because of its family-oriented communities and was already scouting additional locations across the Island.
“The team is constantly looking for more locations,” Gailas said then. “There’s nothing signed yet, but for sure there’s going to be more sprinkled throughout Long Island.”
Chip City went on to build up its Long Island presence as part of a much larger national expansion, eventually growing to more than 50 stores across nine states.
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Top: The Chip City in North Babylon on Deer Park Avenue was closed Friday. (Credit: GLI/Mike White)
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