Crumbs Bake Shops shutters all stores

New York -- Crumbs Bake Shops on Monday closed its 48 stores. The cupcake store chain has been struggling for some time. In a May filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it warned that it "may be forced to curtail or cease its activities" if its operations didn't generate enough cash flow.



Last week, Nasdaq suspended the trading of Crumbs shares on the grounds that the company no longer had at least $2.5 million in shareholder equity, or met benchmarks for an annual net profit.



"Regrettably Crumbs has been forced to cease operations and is immediately attending to the dislocation of its devoted employees while it evaluates its limited remaining options," the company said in a statement posted by The Wall Street Journal.



Crumbs was founded in 2003 and went public in 2011. For the three months ending March 31, it reported a loss of $3.8 million, compared to a loss of $2 million from the same period a year ago.