{"id":146491,"date":"2026-02-06T20:40:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:40:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146491\/"},"modified":"2026-02-06T20:40:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T20:40:35","slug":"whataburger-opens-location-in-largo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/146491\/","title":{"rendered":"Whataburger opens location in Largo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LARGO, Fla. \u2014 Whataburger, The Texas-based fast-food chain, will open a restaurant in Largo on Feb. 12.<\/p>\n<p>The Largo store, which will operate at 10150 Ulmerton Road, is the first of eight planned Tampa Bay-area locations, with the next slated for Brandon and Lutz this spring.<\/p>\n<p>Whataburger currently runs 48 restaurants in Florida, mostly in the Panhandle.<\/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,\u201d said Whataburger CEO Debbie Stroud. \u201cWe met people with long-held Whataburger memories and first-time fans who couldn\u2019t wait for more. We promised we\u2019d be back, and on February 12, we\u2019re proud to deliver on that promise with the opening of our Largo restaurant. We\u2019re bringing hot, made fresh to order food, a team rooted in hospitality, and plenty of orange and white pride, care and love. Largo, we\u2019re excited to call this place our newest hometown.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/MICHAEL.PALUSKA.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>How journalists battle the rise of AI fake news<\/p>\n<p>As News Literacy Week kicks off in partnership with Scripps News, Tampa Bay 28 reporter Michael Paluska sat down with fact-checkers at PolitiFact to <a class=\"Link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tampabay28.com\/news\/local-news\/ai-is-making-fake-news-harder-to-spot-tampa-bay-28-shows-how-journalists-at-politifact-debunk-it\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">learn how they combat misinformation<\/a> in the age of AI.<\/p>\n<p>AI is making fake news harder to spot: How journalists at PolitiFact debunk it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LARGO, Fla. \u2014 Whataburger, The Texas-based fast-food chain, will open a restaurant in Largo on Feb. 12. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146492,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[205,22298,4085,596,135,5910,3670,137,136,208,22802],"class_list":["post-146491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-abc-action-news","tag-burger","tag-largo","tag-pinellas-county","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-28","tag-tampa-bay-local-news","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-wfts","tag-whataburger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146491","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=146491"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146491\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146492"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}