{"id":435889,"date":"2026-10-23T12:30:13","date_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/435889\/"},"modified":"2026-10-23T12:30:13","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T12:30:13","slug":"whataburger-opens-second-swfl-location-in-estero-near-coconut-poin-lee-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/435889\/","title":{"rendered":"Whataburger opens second SWFL location in Estero near Coconut Poin | Lee County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ESTERO, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Whataburger opened its second Southwest Florida location in Estero.<\/p>\n<p>The new restaurant is in the former Pollo Tropical building off U.S. 41 across the street from Coconut Point. Doors opened to customers at 11 a.m. following a 10:30 a.m. ceremony.<\/p>\n<p>Just like the first location, customers came ready to eat. One customer wanted a taste so badly she showed up for a bite right after her cataract surgery.<\/p>\n<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Whataburger second SWFL location LINE\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full default\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>The Estero location offers dine-in and drive-thru service from 6 a.m. to 11 p.m. daily. Unlike the South Fort Myers location, it does not operate 24 hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ESTERO, Fla. (WINK) \u2014 Whataburger opened its second Southwest Florida location in Estero. The new restaurant is in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435890,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[209,211,210,10124,28,687,1521,4571,22802],"class_list":["post-435889","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-estero","tag-florida","tag-restaurants","tag-southwest-florida","tag-united-states","tag-whataburger"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435889","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=435889"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435889\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}