{"id":145666,"date":"2026-02-06T04:34:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:34:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145666\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T04:34:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T04:34:18","slug":"what-whataburger-returning-to-orlando-after-nearly-two-decades","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/145666\/","title":{"rendered":"What! Whataburger returning to Orlando after nearly two decades"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Whataburger is returning to Orlando after 17 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The restaurant chain has filed plans to open a new location at the Waterford Lakes Shopping Center on Alafaya Trail.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Orlando Business Journal reported the new plans based on recently filed permits for the site.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The move marks the chain\u2019s return to the city after leaving the region nearly two decades ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Whataburger previously left Florida in 2009. The company\u2019s departure from the state was attributed to declining sales at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Construction for the new restaurant was approved to begin earlier this week. The project received approval after necessary paperwork was filed for the site within the shopping center.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">There is currently no exact timeline for when the restaurant will open to the public.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/mobile-apps\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Click here<\/a> to download our free news, weather and smart TV apps. And <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wftv.com\/video\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:click here;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">click here<\/a> to stream Channel 9 Eyewitness News live.<\/p>\n<p><a data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/wftvapps.com\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"537\" height=\"108\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/beda08358d6db9816e7b0d066edd22cf.jpeg\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Whataburger is returning to Orlando after 17 years. The restaurant chain has filed plans to open a new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[70513,139,70512,141,140,22802],"class_list":{"0":"post-145666","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-alafaya-trail","9":"tag-orlando","10":"tag-orlando-business-journal","11":"tag-orlando-headlines","12":"tag-orlando-news","13":"tag-whataburger"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}