Where Have All the Cookies Gone?

If you’ve walked down North Walnut St. lately you may have noticed something missing. Although a brightly painted cookie truck still roams the streets of Bloomington, the store location for Insomnia Cookies is vacant.

The cookie shop and late night delivery service used to sit next to Scotty’s Brewhouse at 7th and N. Walnut Streets. Insomnia Cookie allegedly moved out of its shop location after failing to pay rent the last two months of 2008. The two B-town favorite eateries are now battling it out legally.

According to the complaint filed by Scotty’s Brewhouse who sublet the location to the cookie shop, Insomnia Cookie entered into a five year lease contract with Scotty’s until 2012. The cookie shop was required by lease to pay a monthly base rent along with any maintenance fees and possible late charges.

After numerous letters sent to Insomnia Cookie by Scotty’s stating it hadn’t paid rent for November and December 2008 went unanswered, the cookie shop vacated it’s location without any notice.

Currently Scotty’s is suing for an estimated amount of $77,500 for the past due rent, late charges, maintenance repairs and the accelerated base rent for the remaining 3 years of the lease. That estimate does not include additional charges for attorneys fees and other costs for personal damages to the business.

In response the complaint, Insomnia Cookie filed that it was unaware of the 5 year lease date and was also unaware that it had to pay rent for the months remaining in the lease. Insomnia Cookie does not deny that it failed to pay November and December 2008 rent.

While the battle has gone back and forth since January, Insomnia Cookie has yet to find a new location and remains in the cookie delivery truck- still available to answer your late night sweet tooth’s call.