{"id":256960,"date":"2026-08-01T05:22:38","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:22:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256960\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T05:22:38","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T05:22:38","slug":"mr-wish-shut-down-by-the-philadelphia-department-of-health","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/256960\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Wish shut down by the Philadelphia Department of Health"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"print-authors font-bold hidden print:block\"><a class=\"hover:underline\" href=\"https:\/\/www.thetriangle.org\/author\/janine-gin\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Janine Gin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"770\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/P1180110-1-1024x770.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-69707\" \/>Photo by Rocco Fonseca | The Triangle<\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, July 30, a notice was posted on the front door of Mr. Wish, stating that it had to cease operations. According to the Philadelphia Department of Health, the bubble tea shop failed \u201cto comply with <a href=\"https:\/\/codelibrary.amlegal.com\/codes\/philadelphia\/latest\/philadelphia_pa\/0-0-0-272773\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Title 6 Chapter 300<\/a> of the Philadelphia Code,\u201d resulting in an order to close.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Title 6 Chapter 300 of the Philadelphia Code is an ordinance on food safety. At the time of publication, it was unclear which specific regulation Mr. Wish violated. The popular chain serves a variety of bubble tea and fruit tea drinks.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The closure of Mr. Wish comes just weeks after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetriangle.org\/article\/boba-king-shuts-down-on-drexels-campus\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boba King, another popular bubble tea spot on campus, shut down<\/a>. It also marks another closure of a food spot on campus, following the shutdown of El Taco, D.P. Dough and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetriangle.org\/article\/market-street-loses-wawa-on-jan-21\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wawa earlier this year<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>According to the notice posted on the door, the cost for reinspection is $315, and Mr. Wish can appeal the violation within 30 days from the date of the notice.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Wish is located at 3600 Lancaster Ave., and there are 25 locations in Pennsylvania. Besides the store at Drexel, they also have locations in Chinatown, South Philly, and Fishtown.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If students are looking for another bubble tea place on campus, options include Kung Fu Tea (3175 John F. Kennedy Blvd.), Mango Mango (3643 Lancaster Ave.), or Maison Sweet (2930 Chestnut St.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Janine Gin Photo by Rocco Fonseca | The Triangle On Thursday, July 30, a notice was posted on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256961,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[69,71,70],"class_list":["post-256960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia","tag-philadelphia-headlines","tag-philadelphia-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256960\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}