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A Shake Shack in Vernon Hills, Illinois on June 26, 2024. Credit: Joseph Hendrickson \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\nA Shake Shack in Vernon Hills, Illinois on June 26, 2024. Credit: Joseph Hendrickson \/ Shutterstock<\/p>\n
Despite having locations in Hillsborough and Pasco, Shake Shack<\/a> has not yet expanded to Pinellas County. That\u2019s set to change soon.<\/p>\n The New York City-born chain has plans to add a fourth Bay area location at the Seminole City Center strip mall, according to St. Pete Rising<\/a>.<\/p>\n The Seminole location, at 1165 Park Blvd., joins Tampa\u2019s Shake Shack locations at International Mall, Midtown Tampa<\/a>, and a drive-thru in Wesley Chapel<\/a>.<\/p>\n Shake Shack operates nearly 500 locations across the U.S., including nearly three dozen in Florida. The chain\u2014which is rapidly expanding to 1,500 stores, according to Fortune<\/a>\u2014is basically like every other corporate burger joint, but does have crinkle-cut fries (get them with cheese) and hand-spun, made-to-order milkshakes featuring creamy frozen custard. There are also hot dogs, which is a plus.<\/p>\n No opening date has been announced.<\/p>\n Pitch in to help make the Tampa Bay Journalism Project a success.<\/a><\/p>\n Subscribe to Creative Loafing newsletters.<\/a><\/p>\n Follow us:\u00a0Google News<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0NewsBreak<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Reddit<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Instagram<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Facebook\u00a0<\/a>|\u00a0BlueSky<\/a><\/p>\n This article appears in Aug. 06-12, 2026<\/a>.<\/p>\n \n\tRelated\n<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tRead his 2016 intro letter\u00a0and disclosures from 2022 and 2021.\u00a0Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief…\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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