Beverly Office Park Kitchen Closes After 10 Years, Moves Commissary To Danvers

BEVERLY, MA — Beverly's Cummings Center eatery Rogue Kitchen & Provisions has closed permanently after a decade under several names, with Flip The Bird owners blaming the closure on the changing nature of office parks since the COVID-19 pandemic.

Flip The Bird co-owner Torrie Farnsworth said in a social media post on Thursday that all employees will be relocated to other FTP locations and the temporary commissary has been moved to the Danvers location.

Flip The Bird also recently closed its Woburn location.

"We have been suffering through the aftermath of the pandemic and trying to operate a restaurant in an office park," she said, "which as anyone here can clearly see, has not had the same hustle and bustle or large population of office workers since 2019. While people continue to navigate this new world of business that we've found ourselves working in, more people are choosing to work remote, or move their businesses elsewhere.

"It's been difficult since 2020 but through the years since then we've continued to pivot and adapt the best we could to keep the ship afloat, which is obvious with our concept changes over the past decade."

Farnsworth said the business conditions became "unmanageable and obvious that we were not going to be able to afford to be here anymore."

"It happened very fast and we had to focus on moving our things out and keeping our staff employed, which we did."

She said the focus will turn to the remaining Flip The Bird locations on the North Shore in 2026.

"We had high hopes for Rogue," she said, "and I think it would have been amazing for the people who did frequent the Cummings Center if we'd been able to float until the word got out to those working in the office park.

"We just didn't make it over the hump."

(Scott Souza is a Patch field editor covering Beverly, Danvers, Marblehead, Peabody, Salem and Swampscott. He can be reached at Scott.Souza@Patch.com. Twitter: @Scott_Souza.)