What Happened to Peanut Butter & Co. Sandwich Shop After Food Paradise?
Food Paradise, Season 1 New York, New York Closed 2016
Current status
As of October 2026, Peanut Butter & Co. Sandwich Shop has closed — confirmed via prweb.com, February 19, 2016.
What the source shows: A PRWeb release from the company itself, dated 2016-02-19, announced the Sullivan Street shop's closure, and amNewYork independently reported the same closure on 2016-02-22. How we decide a status →
- Episode Season 1, Episode 10
- Address 240 Sullivan St, New York, NY 10012
- Website No current website found
- Show map
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What happened after Food Paradise?
Food Paradise's "Sandwich Paradise" (Season 1, Episode 10) featured the Peanut Butter & Co. sandwich shop, a Greenwich Village storefront that sold gourmet peanut butter sandwiches for $5 apiece, according to Wikipedia. Founder Lee Zalben opened the shop at 240 Sullivan Street in 1998 as an offshoot of his peanut butter brand, according to Wikipedia. A company announcement distributed via PRWeb on 2016-02-19 said the shop would close because the space was too small to showcase the brand's growing product line; Zalben said in the release, "it's just sooo small."
AmNewYork reported on 2016-02-22 that the shop closed after more than 17 years and over a million sandwiches served. The Sullivan Street address is now occupied by an unrelated business, and no reopening under the Peanut Butter & Co. name has been reported since.
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