“We’re not here looking to just push out a product,” he said. “We’re here to give people something we’re proud of.”<\/p>\n
The brothers’ backgrounds may not be in restaurants, but food has always been central to their family. Raised in Tampa, they grew up cooking Lebanese and West African dishes at home, reflecting their family’s heritage.<\/p>\n
While those flavors haven’t made it onto Byte’s menu yet, Ali said customers can expect Middle Eastern-inspired burgers in the future.<\/p>\n
The family’s experience in commercial real estate has also helped shape Byte’s initial footprint and expansion plans. Rather than opening a single restaurant, the brothers envisioned multiple locations from the start, often using properties that are already in their portfolio. <\/p>\n
Each restaurant might have a slightly different audience, depending on its location, Ali added. One planned restaurant near the University of South Florida targets students and the surrounding college community, while future sites are intended to serve downtown professionals and other Tampa neighborhoods.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"“We’re not here looking to just push out a product,” he said. “We’re here to give people something…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":333608,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-333607","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\/333607","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=333607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/333607\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/333608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=333607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=333607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=333607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}