<p class="ingestion featured-caption">Tate's has several varieties of thin, crispy cookies. Meredith Schneider</p><ul class="summary-list"><li><a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/original-tates-bake-shop-hamptons-new-york-visit-photos-2023-9">Tate's Bake Shop</a> is a popular store-bought cookie brand, especially on the East Coast.</li><li>I tried all of the brand's <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/crumbl-cookie-flavors-ranked-worst-to-best-review">cookie flavors</a> I could find and ranked them from worst to best.</li></ul><p>Although I've always loved gooey cookies that melt in your mouth, I can understand why many of my friends prefer crunchy <a target="_blank" class href="https://www.businessinsider.com/which-brand-chocolate-chip-cookies-should-you-buy-at-grocery-store">store-bought cookies</a> since they'll never be fresh.</p><p>But what if you could marry homemade flavor with a fun snap? I think Tate's Bake Shop has come closest to meeting that goal.</p><p>The New York-based cookie brand started as one simple bakery in the 1980s and is now estimated to be <a target="_blank" class href="https://rocketreach.co/tates-bake-shop-profile_b5e8b06cf42e8055">worth over $20 million</a>.</p><p>I embarked on a mission to try all 10 of the brand's cookie flavors that I could find at my <a target="_blank" class href=" https://www.businessinsider.com/what-single-person-buys-trader-joes-eat-cheap-tight-budget-2024-5">local grocery stores</a> and rank them from worst to best.</p>