Noodles & Company starts LI reboot in Farmingdale | Long Island Business News

Noodles & Company, which had closed four of its five Long Island franchised locations, is coming back to the area with new corporate-owned restaurants. 

The Colorado-based fast-casual chain leased a 2,500-square-foot space in the Republic Plaza shopping center in Farmingdale, formerly occupied by Blaze Pizza. 

New Jersey-based franchisees Doherty Enterprises, which has the Panera Bread and Applebee’s franchises here, had previously rolled out five Noodles & Co. locations on Long Island, but closed four of them and the fifth one in the Gallery at Westbury Plaza, the chain’s only remaining Long Island location, is now a corporate-owned restaurant. 

Sources say the Farmingdale location is the first of several corporate-owned Noodles & Co. restaurants that will be opening on Long Island in the near future. Doherty had owned the chain’s former Farmingdale location, which was in Airport Plaza. 

Brian Schuster and Tom Rettaliata of RIPCO Real Estate represented Noodles & Co., while Robert Delavale served as the in-house representative for landlord Breslin Organization in the Republic Plaza lease transaction.