Chip City has shut down all of its remaining stores, ending the gourmet cookie chain’s expansion run with no locations left open. Nicolas Baizan, the company’s president, told employees that the brand’s 22 remaining stores would permanently close at the close of business on Thursday, according to Nation’s Restaurant News.
For households that bought cookies for birthdays, school events or weekend treats, the news means the brand is gone from store pickup and walk-in dessert runs alike. It also closes the book on a chain that had expanded well beyond New York in just a few years.
The final shutdown came all at once
Chip City’s closure was not a single-store pullback. Baizan said in a message to employees that “our 22 remaining stores will permanently close at the close of business today,” according to Nation’s Restaurant News. The trade publication reported the message was sent Thursday, which makes the effective closure date October 1, 2026.
Nation’s Restaurant News said Baizan had been in the president role for only 10 weeks when he delivered the shutdown message. The same report said Chip City representatives did not respond to multiple requests for comment on Friday. Based on that report, no locations were left operating after the day ended.
The closure lands after a period of rapid growth. Chip City said in a May 8, 2024 press release that it had 38 locations across New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, Massachusetts and Virginia, with plans to enter Pennsylvania before the end of that year. Nation’s Restaurant News reported the chain later grew to 45 company locations by 2024 and generated more than $35 million in system sales in 2025, citing Technomic data.
Shoppers across several states are affected
The biggest immediate effect is simple: shoppers no longer have a Chip City storefront to visit. The company had expanded across at least eight states by May 2024, according to its own press release, but Nation’s Restaurant News did not publish a store-by-store closure list for the final 22 locations.
That means some local details remain unconfirmed. The company has not released a list of specific cities for the 22 stores that were still open on October 1, 2026, based on the source material provided. It also has not released a state-by-state count for those final closures.
What is confirmed is that the brand had once stretched well beyond its New York roots. In 2022, Chip City said it had 14 locations across Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens and Long Island. By 2024, it said it had 38 locations in eight states. For families, office workers and party hosts who relied on in-store pickup, the practical result is that there is no remaining location to visit, and no reopening timeline has been announced.
Costs, weaker demand and a legal fight shaped the ending
Baizan blamed the operating climate in his message to employees. According to Nation’s Restaurant News, he wrote that “consumers are spending less and their preferences are evolving and that has negatively impacted our sales.” That frames the shutdown as both a demand problem and a strategy problem in a competitive dessert market.
The closure also came days after Peter Phillips, Chip City’s co-founder and former CEO, sued the company, according to Nation’s Restaurant News. The publication reported that Chip City recapitalized the business in March, when Enlightened Hospitality Investments took a majority stake for $4 million and Phillips’ ownership was reduced to 5%, according to lawsuit documents.
The investment story had once looked far different. Enlightened Hospitality Investments announced a $10 million investment in October 2022. Chip City then announced a $7.5 million Series B round on May 8, 2024, bringing its total raised from EHI to $17.5 million. For home cooks and dessert shoppers, the bottom line is less about finance than access: a chain that had planned to grow to more than 50 locations nationwide has now closed every remaining shop.