{"id":346175,"date":"2026-07-20T16:37:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:37:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346175\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T16:37:20","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:37:20","slug":"tampa-icon-wrights-gourmet-house-will-open-new-locations-in-brandon-wesley-chapel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/346175\/","title":{"rendered":"Tampa icon Wright\u2019s Gourmet House will open new locations in Brandon, Wesley Chapel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-perfmatters-preload=\"\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"703\" data-attachment-id=\"364858\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/food-drink\/tampa-icon-wrights-gourmet-house-will-open-new-locations-in-brandon-wesley-chapel\/attachment\/710280168_1434454062056896_7457625482546631030_n\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/710280168_1434454062056896_7457625482546631030_n.jpg?fit=1080%2C974&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"1080,974\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;1&quot;,&quot;alt&quot;:&quot;&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"710280168_1434454062056896_7457625482546631030_n\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"&lt;p&gt;Wright\u2019s Gourmet House&lt;\/p&gt;&#10;\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.cltampa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/710280168_1434454062056896_7457625482546631030_n.jpg?fit=780%2C703&amp;ssl=1\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/710280168_1434454062056896_7457625482546631030_n.jpg\" alt=\"A stack of cake boxes from Tampa's Wright's Gourmet House.\" class=\"wp-image-364858\"  \/>Wright\u2019s Gourmet House Credit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/photo.php?fbid=1434454055390230&amp;set=pb.100064769468318.-2207520000&amp;type=3\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wright&#8217;s Gourmet House<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Two years have passed since longtime South Tampa favorite Wright\u2019s Gourmet House was sold to the\u00a0Caspers Company, and now the iconic sandwich shop and bakery will bring its popular sandwiches and sheet cakes to the suburbs.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bizjournals.com\/tampabay\/news\/2026\/07\/20\/wrights-gourmet-house-brandon-wiregrass-ranch.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tampa Bay Business Journal<\/a>, Wrights will open two new 15,000-square-foot locations\u2014one at 328 Brandon Town Center Drive in Brandon and the other at Wiregrass Ranch on State Road 56 in Wesley Chapel.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Both outposts will include cafes, catering facilities, a market and more.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">No exact opening dates were announced, but the Brandon location will debut in summer 2027, while the Wesley Chapel spot has a rough target date of\u00a0 2028, says TBBJ.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, the Casper Co., which is led by former city council candidate and local McDonald\u2019s tycoon Blake Casper and his sister Allison Casper Adams, opened a satellite Wright\u2019s caf\u00e9 at Tampa General Hospital Davis Islands campus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Besides Wrights, the Casper Co. also operates Tampa\u2019s Oxford Exchange, Casa Cami, Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Predalina, The Current hotel, and The Stovall House under its <a href=\"https:\/\/oxcommons.com\/our-brands\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Oxford Commons <\/a>brand. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/food-drink\/south-tampas-wrights-gourmet-house-has-officially-been-sold-to-caspers-company-18123372\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/food-drink\/south-tampas-wrights-gourmet-house-has-officially-been-sold-to-caspers-company-18123372\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">purchased the original Wrights location at 1200 S Dale Mabry Hwy. in 2024<\/a>. Two years prior, the Caspers sold off dozens of family\u2013owned McDonald\u2019s franchises, which they <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/food-drink\/tampa-based-caspers-company-will-sell-all-of-its-mcdonalds-locations-13785691\/?_gl=1*q2l1d9*_up*MQ..*_ga*NjI1MzkyMzY3LjE3ODQ1NTM4NDQ.*_ga_J20GDMS7CX*czE3ODQ1NTM4NDQkbzEkZzAkdDE3ODQ1NTM4NDQkajYwJGwwJGgw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">offloaded for an undisclosed amount<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/altnewsfoundation.org\/cl-tampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-normal-font-size wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/tampa-newslettersignup-page\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Follow us:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/publications\/CAAiECLjru3gB6BLYKOKFLfkVZsqFAgKIhAi467t4AegS2CjihS35FWb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbreak.com\/@c\/1599764?s=01\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/CreativeLoafingTampa\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/cltampabay\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/cltampabay\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/bsky.app\/profile\/cltampabay.bsky.social\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"collection-link has-small-font-size\">This article appears in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cltampa.com\/collections\/july-16-22-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">July 16 \u2013 22, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wright\u2019s Gourmet House Credit: Wright&#8217;s Gourmet House Two years have passed since longtime South Tampa favorite Wright\u2019s Gourmet&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":346176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,8770,137,136,7683],"class_list":["post-346175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-bay-dining","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news","tag-tampa-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346175","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=346175"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346175\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}