{"id":396965,"date":"2026-09-11T15:16:57","date_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:16:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396965\/"},"modified":"2026-09-11T15:16:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-11T15:16:57","slug":"whataburger-opens-first-swfl-location-in-south-fort-myers-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/396965\/","title":{"rendered":"Whataburger opens first SWFL location in south Fort Myers | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Whataburger has officially opened its first <a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/southwest_florida\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Southwest Florida<\/a> location in south Fort Myers.<\/p>\n<p>The new restaurant opened its doors at 11 a.m. at 12916 South Cleveland Avenue. It sits between Mission Barbeque and Carrabba&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.winknews.com\/news\/wink_stop\/two-southwest-florida-restaurants-bring-different-flavors-to-sizzle-dining\/article_af1304b6-7659-4ef1-88c0-1b873d68e018.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Two Southwest Florida restaurants bring different flavors to Sizzle Dining<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Long lines are expected as the chain is known for its popularity. Whataburger has more than 1,200 locations in 17 states.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"FORT MYERS, Fla. (WINK)\u2014Whataburger has officially opened its first Southwest Florida location in south Fort Myers. The new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":396966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,28,897,807,1521,22802],"class_list":["post-396965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral","tag-cape-coral-headlines","tag-cape-coral-news","tag-florida","tag-fort-myers","tag-south-florida","tag-southwest-florida","tag-whataburger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396965","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=396965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/396965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/396966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=396965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=396965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=396965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}