{"id":229790,"date":"2026-04-13T14:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229790\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T14:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T14:18:09","slug":"national-burger-chain-opening-2nd-restaurant-in-tampa-bay-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/229790\/","title":{"rendered":"National Burger Chain Opening 2nd Restaurant In Tampa Bay Area"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LUTZ, FL \u2014 National burger chain Whataburger is continuing its expansion in the Tampa Bay area with a new restaurant coming to Lutz. <\/p>\n<p>The new location at 25340 Sierra Center Blvd. is set to open Thursday at 11 a.m., <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wtsp.com\/article\/life\/food\/whataburger-lutz-new-location-opening-tampa-bay\/67-e6707c43-7104-4022-b5d8-028ec68599f2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WFLA reported<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>The first 80 guests in line and the first 20 cars to come through the drive-thru will receive a Whataburger merch-filled goodie bag, reports said. <\/p>\n<p>This is the brand\u2019s second location in the Tampa Bay area. <\/p>\n<p>Whataburger opened a restaurant in Largo at 10150 Ulmerton Road in February. <\/p>\n<p>Another is coming soon to Brandon at 1426 West Brandon Boulevard, <a href=\"https:\/\/locations.whataburger.com\/fl.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the company\u2019s website<\/a>. No opening date is set yet for this location.<\/p>\n<p>There are more than 50 Whatburgers open or planned in Florida. <\/p>\n<p>In August 2024, the company announced its plans to expand in the Tampa Bay area with several new locations by 2026, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/food-drink\/whataburger-is-coming-back-to-tampa-bay-18360948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Creative Loafing reported<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The region previously was home to multiple Whataburger locations in the late-1990s and early-2000s, reports said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LUTZ, FL \u2014 National burger chain Whataburger is continuing its expansion in the Tampa Bay area with a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":229791,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-229790","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\/229790","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=229790"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229790\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/229791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}