Georgetown Cupcake in DC shut down because of to health violations

Cami Mondeaux

August 11, 09:42 AM August 11, 09:53 AM

Georgetown Cupcake, a well-known cupcake store in Washington, D.C., has been shut down by the district’s wellness section because of to an “imminent well being hazard to the public.”

The shop positioned on M Road in northwest Washington ordinarily has a line out the door stretching down the sidewalk and brimming with out-of-towners who have witnessed the cupcakes on the internet or on the truth Television set exhibit DC Cupcakes. Nonetheless, people wanting to get their cupcake deal with may possibly have to wait around soon after the shop was slapped with a closure detect due to well being worries.

DC Law enforcement Look for FOR SUSPECTS ACCUSED OF ATTACKING Gay Few AND HURLING MONKEYPOX SLURS

The district's health division served the store with a closure observe on Wednesday, with no other specifics apart from the notice on the front doorway that states the company violated the district’s wellbeing code. It is not crystal clear which provisions of the wellbeing code the store violated, and the agency has not responded to a ask for for remark by the Washington Examiner.

A spokesperson for Georgetown Cupcake said it been given the recognize due to the fact its small business license experienced expired, sustaining that "there ended up not other health and fitness code violations," the company explained to the Washington Examiner. The cupcakery has submitted a license renewal and claimed it hopes to reopen "as soon as possible."

Georgetown Cupcake opened in early 2008 and immediately turned a staple of the city, usually running out of cupcakes before the perform working day was about. It garnered nationwide awareness following the homeowners, sisters Katherine Berman and Sophie LaMontagne, filmed a fact Tv set series with TLC named DC Cupcakes, which lasted for a few seasons.

The shop grew in popularity because of to the exhibit, prompting the sisters to open up a 2nd location in Bethesda, Maryland, in 2010. Georgetown Cupcake has since expanded to six locations throughout the nation, stretching from Los Angeles to New York, and features nationwide transport.