Food & Drink

Biscuit shop closes — because it’s too popular

Biscuits are the new Cronuts — but being this popular isn’t all gravy.

Owners of the city’s new 24-hour biscuit shop were forced to temporarily close after the place became so flooded by New Yorkers fiending for warm and buttery comfort food that owners couldn’t keep up, the restaurateurs said.

Empire Biscuits — which serves only hot, to-go biscuits in the East Village — closed one day after its jampacked grand opening on Oct. 30 after customers slammed it with 10 times more business than owners expected.

“We were serving well over 100 people an hour. It just wasn’t something we were expecting so soon,” owner Jonathan Price told The Post.

“We wouldn’t be serving the food we want, the way we want it, if we tried to do too much too soon,” he said.

The shop reopened on Sunday, only to go dark after several hours and was shuttered again until Tuesday.

But Price and his partner, Yonadav Tsuna, have since hired more staffers — up from 15 to a team of 35 — to better prepare for crowds.

They also bought more shelf space to help workers maneuver efficiently in the small-but-busy kitchen.

Biscuits cost $4.50, and come with spreads such as maple butter and fig jam and fois-gras butter. Biscuit sandwiches with egg, cheese and chicken are also available.

The shop reopens on Wednesday at 8 a.m. Owners will post hours on the shop’s Twitter page until it can work out a more set schedule, Price said.