{"id":282539,"date":"2026-05-07T08:11:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:11:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282539\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T08:11:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T08:11:15","slug":"waffle-house-finalizing-plans-to-open-location-in-waco-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/282539\/","title":{"rendered":"Waffle House finalizing plans to open location in Waco, Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/kwtx.com\">WACO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211;<\/a> Waco City Council on Tuesday learned Waffle House is finalizing plans to open a location in the city. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">A formal announcement has not been made, and a location for the restaurant has not yet been revealed, but Waffle House allowed the City to reveal the news during its council meeting on May 5. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cThat was the surprise we wanted to bring to you,\u201d a city official told city council. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Waco District 3 Representative Josh Borderud called it a \u201cgreat gift.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cI don\u2019t consider myself a sentimental man. I\u2019m not often moved to tears or great showing of emotion but this here today, a breakfast loving Baptist like myself, to know we\u2019re going to be united to other southern metros by this beautiful chain, which is generally peaceful in the daytime, this is a great gift. Thank you very much,\u201d Borderud said during the meeting. <\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KWTX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WACO, Texas (KWTX) &#8211; Waco City Council on Tuesday learned Waffle House is finalizing plans to open a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":282540,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[254,2055,2060,2058,2057,2059,2061,27,29,28,2056],"class_list":["post-282539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-live-speeches","tag-live-updates","tag-live-video","tag-press-conference","tag-real-time-coverage","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-video-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=282539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/282540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=282539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=282539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=282539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}