🥤 Tucson-based Eegee’s, an iconic sandwich chain best known for its frozen fruit drinks, filed Chapter 11 bankruptcy Friday.
The chain, which closed one of it five Valley locations and four of it 25 Tucson locations Thursday, has struggled since the covid pandemic.
‘‘We just haven’t bounced back to pre-pandemic levels,’’ says Chris Westcott, who’s been the company’s interim CEO for two weeks.
The chain’s remaining locations will continue to operate as usual, Westcott says.
Eegee’s started as a frozen lemonade truck in 1971. In 2018 it was bought by 39 North Capital, which decided to re-expand into the Valley, a market it had abandoned decades earlier.
It opened its first Valley location in Gilbert in 2021. It currently has two locations in Gilbert, one in east Mesa, and one in north Phoenix.
The Valley location that closed Thursday was on the northwest corner of Peoria and 35th Avenue in west Phoenix.
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