{"id":146142,"date":"2026-02-06T15:27:28","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:27:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146142\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T15:27:28","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T15:27:28","slug":"whataburger-to-open-1st-tampa-bay-area-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146142\/","title":{"rendered":"Whataburger to open 1st Tampa Bay-area restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qsrweb.com\/topics\/operations-management\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Operations<\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/cover_image__H80EJLFw__Whataburger.jpg.960x540_q85_crop_upscale.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo: Whataburger<\/p>\n<p class=\"mute fs-sr mt-3\">February 6, 2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.qsrweb.com\/companies\/whataburger\/media\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Whataburger<\/a> is coming to the Tampa Bay area. The burger brand will open its first Largo, Florida, restaurant on Feb., 12. Swag for the first guests in line and a month-long Kids Meal promo will be the highlights of the day, according to a press release.<\/p>\n<p>The 24-hour-a-day restaurant is located at 10150 Ulmerton Road. Whataburger operates 48 locations statewide.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;When we brought the Whataburger Food Truck to Tampa in 2024, the Florida heat showed up, but the energy showed up even bigger,&#8221; Debbie Stroud, Whataburger CEO, said in the press release. &#8220;We met people with long-held Whataburger memories and first-time fans who couldn&#8217;t wait for more. We promised we&#8217;d be back, and on Feb. 12, we&#8217;re proud to deliver on that promise with the opening of our Largo restaurant. We&#8217;re bringing hot, made fresh to order food, a team rooted in hospitality, and plenty of orange and white pride, care and love. Largo, we&#8217;re excited to call this place our newest hometown.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Largo restaurant is the first of eight planned Whataburger locations across the Tampa Bay area by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Whataburger is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas, and has more than 1,100 restaurants across 17 states.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Operations Photo: Whataburger February 6, 2026 Whataburger is coming to the Tampa Bay area. The burger brand will&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146143,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-146142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146142","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=146142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146142\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}