The Crumbl Cookies shop at 4034 Morse Crossing in Columbus has closed, its sign already stripped from the storefront, and now the kitchen behind it is being sold off piece by piece through an online equipment auction. The shop's lease is ending, and the listing tied to the sale describes the location as closed for business.
According to Columbus Navigator, the Easton-area shop had been pulled from Crumbl's online store locator, and its individual webpage now returns an error. As bizjournals.com reports, the shop's equipment and supplies are up for sale following the closure. The Easton location had opened in January 2022, back when Easton Town Center touted Crumbl as the fastest-growing cookie company in the country, per Columbus Navigator.
What's Going Up For Auction
The online equipment auction opened October 1 and is set to close around 4 p.m. on October 15, per the auction listing cited by Columbus Navigator. An open house at the Crumbl Easton shop is scheduled for October 11 from 1 to 4 p.m., with showings also available by appointment at other times, the listing notes.
The catalog includes two Hobart dough mixers, two Blodgett mini rotary ovens, eight two-door reach-in refrigerators, a glass-door freezer and a three-compartment sink, according to the same report. Dry goods were reportedly left behind on the shelves. The equipment was bought new and is described as being in very good condition, per the auction listing.
A Rough Year For The Cookie Chain
The closure lands amid a bruising stretch for Crumbl nationally. At least 57 Crumbl locations have closed across the United States so far in 2026, according to coinpaper.com, even as the chain still operates more than 1,000 stores. Crumbl's August sales were 70 percent lower than they had been two years earlier, per reporting from Columbus Navigator citing Restaurant Business, and foot traffic across the chain's locations was down 32 percent year over year according to Placer.ai data cited in that same coverage.
Crumbl has also laid off much of its franchise support staff, per Entrepreneur as referenced in Columbus Navigator's report. Co-founders Jason McGowan and Sawyer Hemsley said they would step down from their day-to-day roles in May, according to Restaurant Business. McGowan has since taken public ownership of the slump, saying “it's my fault where we are today,” per Entrepreneur, while also saying a new CEO is coming soon.
The pressures show up in the chain's own numbers too. Crumbl's average unit volume climbed 17 percent in 2024 before falling back in 2025, landing at roughly $1.1 million per location according to figures reported by restaurantbusinessonline.com — though the outlet's own later reporting put the 2025 figure at $1.14 million, down from nearly $1.4 million the year before. Even with the decline, Crumbl generated more than $1.3 billion in total system sales in 2025, and its system-wide sales have grown more than 1,000 percent since 2020, per restaurantbusinessonline.com.
Other Central Ohio Locations Still Listed
Despite the Easton closure, Crumbl's store locator still lists 10 other shops around central Ohio, according to Columbus Navigator's report, including locations in Polaris, New Albany, near Ohio State, Hilliard, Dublin, Grove City, Canal Winchester, Reynoldsburg, Delaware and Heath. It's not the only closure shaking up the Easton Town Center lineup recently — True Food Kitchen closed its Easton restaurant on October 4, with its parent company having entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy, Columbus Navigator reported.
