{"id":310156,"date":"2026-07-30T21:27:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:27:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310156\/"},"modified":"2026-07-30T21:27:18","modified_gmt":"2026-07-30T21:27:18","slug":"tribeca-citizen-joe-the-juice-is-closing-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/310156\/","title":{"rendered":"Tribeca Citizen | Joe &#038; The Juice is closing tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\tJoe &amp; The Juice is closing tomorrow<\/p>\n<p class=\"postmetadata\">July 30, 2026 \u2022 <a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/category\/restaurants-bars\/\" rel=\"category tag nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Restaurant\/Bar News<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Joe-and-the-Juice-2.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"414643606\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"203258\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-203265 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Joe-and-the-Juice-2-420x315.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Joe &amp; The Juice, the Danish coffee chain that<a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/2018\/04\/13\/joe-the-juice-is-opening-here\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\"> opened here in 2018<\/a>, is closing tomorrow, Friday, July 31. D. sent word earlier this week \u2014 she and her kids love their sandwiches \u2014 and I confirmed with the staff yesterday. No word from corporate after a couple emails\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Joe &amp; The Juice took what was the northern half of Gee Whiz Diner at 295 Greenwich between Chambers and Warren. The chain started in 2002 with a single store in Copenhagen, was bought out by a private equity firm in 2012 and started a global expansion. There are now more than 500 outposts worldwide including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.joejuice.com\/stores\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">23 in the city<\/a>, with two in Fidi and one in Soho.<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Gee Whiz, faced with an increase in rent and wages, <a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/2016\/04\/29\/gee-whiz-diner-is-downsizing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">cut off part of itself<\/a> in order to survive. The longtime Tribeca staple first suffered the death of <a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/2020\/04\/10\/peter-panayiotou-the-owner-of-gee-whiz-dies-from-the-coronavirus\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">its founder, Peter Panayoitou<\/a>, from covid, then <a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/2025\/04\/10\/gee-whizs-space-is-now-for-rent\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">closed altogether in spring 2025.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So now that space is fully empty.<\/p>\n<p>The building was built in 1987, so Gee Whiz was its primary tenant on the southern corner nearly its entire life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Joe-and-the-Juice-3.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"497659651\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"203258\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-203266 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Joe-and-the-Juice-3-420x329.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"329\"   \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/tribecacitizen.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Gee-Whiz-Diner-division.jpg\" data-slb-active=\"1\" data-slb-asset=\"501873154\" data-slb-internal=\"0\" data-slb-group=\"203258\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-107414 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/Gee-Whiz-Diner-division-420x280.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"280\"   \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Joe &amp; The Juice is closing tomorrow July 30, 2026 \u2022 Restaurant\/Bar News Joe &amp; The Juice, the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":310157,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-310156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=310156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/310156\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/310157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=310156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=310156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=310156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}