Noodles & Company, which had closed four of its five Long Island franchised locations, is coming back to the area with new corporate-owned restaurants.
The Colorado-based fast-casual chain leased a 2,500-square-foot space in the Republic Plaza shopping center in Farmingdale, formerly occupied by Blaze Pizza.
New Jersey-based franchisees Doherty Enterprises, which has the Panera Bread and Applebee’s franchises here, had previously rolled out five Noodles & Co. locations on Long Island, but closed four of them and the fifth one in the Gallery at Westbury Plaza, the chain’s only remaining Long Island location, is now a corporate-owned restaurant.
Sources say the Farmingdale location is the first of several corporate-owned Noodles & Co. restaurants that will be opening on Long Island in the near future. Doherty had owned the chain’s former Farmingdale location, which was in Airport Plaza.
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