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Bakery chain Dirty Dough<\/a> is once again having trouble finding its footing in San Antonio. The cookie company closed its remaining Alamo City shop at 10722 Potranco Rd. on April 1.<\/p>\n

\u201cAfter much thought, we want to share that our Potranco location of Dirty Dough will be closing, the business wrote on social media. \u201cWe are incredibly grateful for the love and support from our San Antonio community\u2026Thank you for being part of our story, for supporting a local business, and for all the sweet memories we\u2019ve created together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Dirty has had a rocky start in San Antonio. The brand debuted in San Antonio in 2022, but the franchise shuttered a mere six months later,<\/a> with local operator Jalon Miyasaki blaming the December 2023 exit on “slow business.\u201d<\/p>\n

That same month, another operator debuted the Potranco Road location. That, too, was not an immediate success. In April 2024, the San Antonio Current reported<\/a> that the owner was asking for community support to keep the lights on.<\/p>\n

Dirty Dough is known for its plump cookies, which are “engineered from the inside out” with various mix-ins, fillings, and crunchy toppings. The bakery is always on top of trends, combining classics like chocolate chip and strawberry shortcake with flavors like ube rainbow pebbles and amaretto cherry.<\/p>\n

More recently, it has become a one-stop sweets shop, adding goodies like maple bacon cinnamon rolls, fluffernutter bars, churro waffle bites, and shakes. The brand has also adopted the dirty soda trend with drinks like Dreamsicle Delight made with Fanta Orange, vanilla syrup, and cream.<\/p>\n

The brand first got its footing with some dorm room kitchen experimentation at Arizona State University, before entrepreneur Bennett Maxwell made it into a viable brand. The immediate popularity, however, soon drew the ire of Utah franchise Crumbl Cookies.<\/p>\n

In 2022, the \u201cUtah Cookie Wars<\/a>\u201d erupted. Crumbl hit Dirty with a pair of lawsuits accusing the company of cribbing trade secrets. Dirty fought back by erecting billboards on Crumbl\u2019s home turf that read \u201cCookies So Good We’re Being Sued\u201d and \u201cOur Cookies Don’t Crumble with Competition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Since settling the Crumbl lawsuits and being acquired by restaurant platform Craveworthy Brands in 2024, the brand is once again on a growth spurt, opening new stores and expanding to grocery store shelves. Those new units<\/a> include one that will land at 5216 Broadway in Alamo Heights later in the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bakery chain Dirty Dough is once again having trouble finding its footing in San Antonio. The cookie company…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":243719,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[7082,4262,49981,6832,56,17930,354,82,84,83],"class_list":{"0":"post-243718","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-bars","10":"tag-food-and-wine","11":"tag-george-bush-intercontinental-airport","12":"tag-houston","13":"tag-iah","14":"tag-restaurants","15":"tag-san-antonio","16":"tag-san-antonio-headlines","17":"tag-san-antonio-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=243718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/243718\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/243719"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=243718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=243718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=243718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}