Inside the darkened storefront, the menus have been stripped from the walls and boxes are piled high against the front door, beneath handwritten signs on the window that read, ‘We are out service permanent [sic]! We are sorry.'”

It’s unclear when PrimoHoagies officially shuttered but a stylist at Supercuts a few doors down told Chron the sandwich shop closed sometime over the weekend and that crews were back Wednesday packing boxes and cleaning up the space.

PrimoHoagies’ other location in the Copperfield Place community of Northwest Houston also appears to have closed, as it is no longer listed on the chain’s official website.

The family owned Italian deli franchise, founded in Philadelphia in 1992, made its Houston debut in the Washington Corridor in early 2023 before opening the second location northwest a year later, Chron previously reported. 

For those upset about Houston’s sudden lack of American and Italian hoagies (known by most of the U.S. as submarine sandwiches or grinders), cheesesteaks, Pennsylvania-made Herr’s Salt and Vinegar chips and pepper shooters filled with cheese and prosciutto and kept in olive oil, there is still reportedly a PrimoHoagies location in Montgomery, about 50 miles north of the OG Houston Primo.

These closures come as the Philly brand starts “entering a critical growth phase” as part of a national expansion. In a recent press release announcing the appointment of Angela Coppler as senior vice president of development, PrimoHoagies’ team revealed more than 40 units currently in development as part of a plan to build a “bigger brand by first building better units.”

PrimoHoagies has yet to respond to Chron’s request for information about the recent closures.