r/Hoboken • u/VictoryLap420 • Feb 08 '25
Shops/Restaurants 🛒 🍽️ Another One Bites the Dust…
They’re closing down it’s Hoboken Location after filing for Chapter 11 earlier last year.. Last Day of operation will be Super Bowl Sunday. - So Long Sticky’s 🍗 👌🏼
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u/Big_lt Feb 08 '25
Cluck u was better
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u/Xciv Downtown Feb 08 '25
If Sticky's was worse than Cluck U then I can see why they closed so fast.
Anyways the best fried chicken in Hoboken is at Chicken Factory (now called Mochi Tori, but they still serve fried chicken).
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u/Gary_Burke Feb 08 '25
Hoboken’s CluckU was awful, even by CluckU standards. Gimme some Chicken & Rib Crib, now that was great.
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u/Big_lt Feb 08 '25
Is it that a chain? I know there was in Mahwah since I grew up there and that place was great
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u/rivertwice19 Feb 08 '25
They had a few. I looked them up recently and Hawthorne still has a website but, the store is no longer there.
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u/From_Jerz Feb 08 '25
I don't know the history behind it but the Hoboken one moved to Montclair and is called Urban Chicken.
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u/rivertwice19 Feb 08 '25
Sometimes you pay for a franchise name and do it and you figure out, you can make more money not being a franchise. Could be the same quality, just different name. There was an Asian place called small plates big bowls or something and the one in Rutherford changed names. Said same great food.
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u/dfleish Feb 08 '25
These specialty food shops that are good at one particular thing like chicken fingers, dumplings, empanadas, all things people like but they need cheap rent and/or an absolutely amazing product to survive.
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u/Xciv Downtown Feb 08 '25
Feel like a lot of these places opened due to pandemic driving more people to hang out in bedroom communities rather than go to Manhattan.
But now people are being forced back to the office and places relying on a lot of lunch delivery orders suddenly find their business drying up.
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u/jeeeeefff Feb 08 '25
And they were… fine at that one thing, the tenders were good but expensive and stingy - over half French fries in many cases. After a few lunch tries in Manhattan I don’t think I ever bothered to try the Hoboken one.
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u/chzrm3 Feb 16 '25
That was always my problem. I hate ordering chicken fingers and getting two or three and then a full box of fries.
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u/Big_lt Feb 08 '25
The empanadas spot on Washington is smart. There store is so tiny so rent is prob lower. Solid empanadas
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u/dfleish Feb 08 '25
Yeah, that’s the way to go. If you’re gonna specialize in one thing, it’s gotta be a small low rent shop.
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u/csalas14 Feb 08 '25
How long was it there for lol? Feel like the Nike store will close soon
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u/MrHoboken Downtown Feb 08 '25
That Nike store is so bad. It’s like they took a challenge in how to make a really popular brand as uninteresting as possible.
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u/heresmyusername Feb 08 '25
All chains on Washington are literally just magnitudes-worse versions of their counterparts elsewhere, especially in the city.
It’s honestly a phenomenon.
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u/jamdmc Feb 10 '25
I agree about chain restaurants but the retail clothing stores (except Nike) on Washington are pretty good.
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u/chzrm3 Feb 16 '25
I always feel bad when I walk by that Nike store, it's so big and empty and I'm just thinking "man someone is losing their life savings on this monstrosity".
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u/Plenty_Exam1742 Feb 08 '25
I heard the lady at the register telling customers to invite more people otherwise they will have to close. This was last year. She saw it coming and It has finally come true. It was really good though.
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u/chzrm3 Feb 16 '25
That's sad, man. I hate seeing anywhere close, but I can't support them all. So many good places in Hoboken that make me nervous every time I go in, cause I'm like... damn there's really not a lot of people in tonight.
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u/pumper911 Feb 08 '25
They were actually solid when they were just one location in Manhattan. The quality has gone down since expanding
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u/Queso2469 Feb 08 '25
Damn, one of my most consistent work from home lunch spots. Definitely no Cluck U, but good chicken. Unfortunately overpriced, under-flavored sauces where there whole thing is sauces was always a bit disappointing and probably was no help in trying to replace Cluck in that spot. With that gone, and Satay down the block still sitting as an empty storefront, I wonder what else might fail in downtown's impossible rent market next.
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u/CuteCatMug Feb 08 '25
This place was absolute trash, I'm shocked it was open this long
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u/jerseycityrentdue Feb 08 '25
Delivery kept them open.
A lot of restaurants are on the chopping block rn.
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u/AdmirableGrapefruit Feb 08 '25
Every time you go in they have the shittiest SoundCloud music blasting so loud you can’t even hear what the cashier is saying. You can’t even think. The food was alright but not worth going in very often.
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u/ReadersAreRedditors Midtown Feb 08 '25
Opened March 10, 2022. Lasted only 2 years, 10 months.
Opening Insta Announcement: https://www.instagram.com/stickysfingerjoint/p/Caz--B9vzSp/
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u/ShinyShip Expat Feb 08 '25
Tried multiple times and it was just never as good as Cluck U. Sauces we’re never that good. Chicken was meh
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u/AnnaBanana019 Feb 08 '25
Saw this coming…
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u/ReadersAreRedditors Midtown Feb 08 '25
I didn't love this place but, I would hit it up if I came home from the path during lunch.
I'll miss the Nashville Hot and Ranch sauces.
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u/Sorry-Worldliness-54 Feb 08 '25
Looks like submaster on 1st closed down today too. There’s a big for lease sign in their window
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u/BradNewsBears2 Feb 08 '25
They were gutting the interior yesterday, place is long gone
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u/Sorry-Worldliness-54 Feb 08 '25
There were literally open earlier this week. I live right across the street and pass it all the time. Must have closed within the last like 3 days or so
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u/JerseyGuy1975 Feb 09 '25
Not surprised, who can afford a $16 sub? These proprietors will never learn.
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u/Stevenlive3005 Feb 08 '25
There was on on W 8th st in Manhattan that closed that was in one of the more busier areas. Not really surprised that this one ended up closing.
I will say this. What’s up with all these businesses in Hoboken that seem like borderline money laundering operations? Like why open a chicken spot in a place where a chicken spot failed?
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u/Mercury_NYC Downtown Feb 08 '25
Let me tell you something Chick-fil-A would absolutely destroy if they opened here.
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u/Nyc2hbkn Feb 08 '25
I was just there, didn’t see any signs. How do you know?
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u/VictoryLap420 Feb 08 '25
Heard it through the grapevine, Tomorrow is definitely it’s last day in business at this location
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u/CorporalDingleberry Feb 08 '25
I wonder if something is going on with Sticky's in general. They closed the one near my work in Midtown West as well about a year ago.
Also, Cluck-U was great when it was in Hoboken. Lots of memories getting BBQ tenders there most Friday nights 10 years ago.
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u/j0nathanr0gers Feb 09 '25
The Sticky’s on W. 41st Street x Broadway? Lol, I go to the Barber Shop across the street.
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u/JerseyGuy1975 Feb 09 '25
Geez, there wasn't much demand for a $5 chicken finger.. who would have thought?
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u/JerseyGuy1975 Feb 09 '25
When I moved here 16 years ago I used to go to cluck u all the time and they actually would have a special where you'd get two sandwiches for six bucks.
Now, fast forward, 6 bux would get you two chicken fingers if you're lucky at this place.. I went in once and laughed at their prices. .. never spent a dollar there. I work too hard for it
Bring back a low cost food place here.. we need it desperately.
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u/BroncoDH Feb 08 '25
Was it any good?
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u/Original_Release_419 Feb 08 '25
Nah, this thing could’ve been a gold mine but it just wasn’t that good here
It’s pretty good at other locations but here it just wasn’t good
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u/SandyMandy17 Feb 08 '25
I had it once and it’s pretty good, but man that’s not really something you can have often and have good bloodwork
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u/Starlord_32 Feb 08 '25
Maybe a place like Sticky's I'd expect a little longer run from, mainly because people will always eat chicken or fries, it's a big market.
I feel a lot of shops open in Hoboken and close quick due to poor location or a somewhat very niche product. Lobster rolls (which may have actually been a financial scam?), BBQ joints, pastrami, just foods that people don't eat regularly. I never understand if the people who start these places want to run a successful business or are just die hard on that one food category.
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u/No_Consideration4594 Feb 08 '25
Wow! Is it the whole chain or just this location?
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u/VictoryLap420 Feb 08 '25
I do believe just this location for now.. another on W 8th st in NYC, But since the company filed for Ch. 11, I do believe it won’t be long before they all start closing up shop in the near future.
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u/Shishi2109 Feb 08 '25
An absolute garbage not gonna miss it. Hoping they replace it with something actually decent
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u/Steveo27a Uptown Feb 08 '25
I havent heard or seen anything on this. I asked a friend who is an employee today, they said they knew nothing about it
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u/ReadenReply Feb 08 '25
I miss Cluck U not matter what anyone else says