Vermont breadmaker, baker Koffee Kup abruptly closes, lays off 250 employees
The Koffee Kup Bakery in Burlington, seen on Tuesday, April 27, 2021, abruptly laid off most of its employees and shuttered the plant. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger
Modified: 4/27/2021 9:42:27 PM
Vermont-based Koffee Kup Bakery closed its doors without plans to reopen on Monday, leaving hundreds of employees out of work.
According to a notice filed with the state Department of Labor, 247 employees lost their jobs. Of those, 156 worked at the company’s Burlington location and 91 worked at a Brattleboro subsidiary, the Vermont Bread Co.
“The department has already started the process of reaching out to the company in an effort to provide job loss services around unemployment insurance and re-employment efforts to those employees that were impacted,” said Kyle Thweatt, a spokesperson for the Department of Labor.