Foxtrot raised $100m in a Series C investment round in January 2022 to fuel further retail expansion | Photo credit: Foxtrot

Chicago-based coffee shop and boutique grocery chain Foxtrot has closed its 33 stores with immediate effect. 
 

The abrupt closure, announced on Foxtrot’s website and social media channels, comes five months after the business merged with two-store Dom’s Kitchen & Market to form new entity Outfox Hospitality and two months after it appointed long-serving Whole Foods Market executive Rob Twyman as its new CEO. 

“We explored many avenues to continue the business but found no viable option despite good faith and exhaustive efforts,” Foxtrot posted on social media.  

Founded in 2013 as an app-based grocery delivery service, Foxtrot opened its first bricks-and-mortar store in 2015 and scaled its coffee bar-convenience store concept to upscale neighbourhoods in Chicago, Washington D.C., Dallas and Austin. The business raised $100m in a Series C investment round in January 2022 to fuel further retail expansion.