For the past two weeks, students have been missing their midnight snack.

Route 1 cookie store Insomnia Cookies and Tasti D-Lite, which sells the cookies, just re-opened yesterday after a two-week hiatus due to staffing issues, manager of operations Lindsay Gall said.

“At the University of Maryland, it appears that students aren’t interested in working,” Gall said.

Though the store is now open during the day, the company is unsure when the night-time delivery of Insomnia Cookies will start up again.

“It may be this weekend, it may be next semester,” Gall said.

The main issue has been with the number of workers. Gall said the company has always had troubles getting enough workers ever since the store opened about a year ago. Tasti D-Lite stores are located at many universities throughout the United States, including the University of Illinois, Syracuse University and Cornell University. None of these other locations have had hiring issues.

Currently, Tasti D-Lite has about seven people working part-time, Gall said.

Since opening last year, a manager at the store said Tasti D-Lite and Insomnia had some problems paying employees.

The Tasti D-Lite manager, who is known only as Wildness, said others told him employees were sometimes not paid, but said he has not had any problems getting paid since he started working at the store in July.

“I make sure the employees get paid,” Wildness said. “But I have never had any problems with the owners.”

Employees at stores near Tasti D-Lite said it was never open and had inconsistent store hours.

Moe’s Southwest Grill manager Aura Palacios said she has noticed the store randomly closing several times since about two months after it opened.

“It is closed at least 80 percent of the time,” Palacios said.

Moe’s employee Anthony Nelson agreed, saying he has noticed the store being closed often, especially recently.

Quizno’s manager Akash Dave said he also noticed the frequent closings of Tasti D-Lite and Insomnia and believes it may lead to poor business.

“[The number of customers] has definitely declined because no one knows when it is actually open,” Dave said. “The rent here is so expensive, I don’t know how they are still in business.”

But Wildness said since he has been there, the store has been open every day except two weeks for Christmas and New Years.

Dave said it is possible he does not notice Insomnia Cookies’ business because it was predominately a night-time company, with employees making deliveries between 8 p.m. and 2:30 a.m., after normal business hours of the neighboring companies.

Contact reporter Kaitlyn Seith at seithdbk@gmail.com.