On Friday, Jan. 16, a line of cars was backing up Lawndale Drive traffic as fans of Clutch Coffee Bar stacked up to get one last cup of their favorite coffee – or coffee-adjacent drink – at the Sunset Drive location in Greensboro.
By the end of the day, the lights were off, the drive-thru window was closed, and Clutch Coffee Bar’s Greensboro outpost was officially done.
The Sunset Drive location is now closed, and it won’t be reopening under the Clutch name. In fact, it won’t be reopening at all: Greensboro’s Clutch was one of the chain’s final operating locations, and with its closure, Clutch Coffee Bar has now shut down all remaining stores as the company moves toward being acquired by Dutch Bros Coffee – a fast-growing drive-thru coffee brand based in the Pacific Northwest…