{"id":302909,"date":"2026-05-21T12:42:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302909\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T12:42:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T12:42:08","slug":"24-chain-restaurants-that-dallasites-want-in-north-texas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/302909\/","title":{"rendered":"24 chain restaurants that Dallasites want in North Texas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dallas loves chain restaurants like butter loves bread. Indeed, the city has become a smooth, steady spot for nationally expanding restaurants looking to launch in Texas.<\/p>\n<p>But haven\u2019t we hit \u201cpeak restaurant?\u201d Apparently not.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Some Dallasites wish out-of-town restaurants would slow their roll in D-FW.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe should only add a new chain if we get rid of one,\u201d Dallas attorney David Denney wrote on Instagram. \u201cLike teaching a kid about responsible toy acquisition.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Other North Texans were eager to share restaurants from other cities or states they think would add to Dallas-Fort Worth\u2019s dynamic dining scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Check out two dozen restaurants Dallas Morning News readers wish would come to D-FW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dallas loves chain restaurants like butter loves bread. Indeed, the city has become a smooth, steady spot for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103,88671,88942,96857,88948,109903,96858,88935,88943,91781,89307,91833,95927,88946,100418],"class_list":["post-302909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-tp-commercial-real-estate","tag-tp-barbecue","tag-tp-breakfast","tag-tp-burgers","tag-tp-chinese-food","tag-tp-coffee-shop","tag-tp-italian-food","tag-tp-japanese-food","tag-tp-mexican-food","tag-tp-restaurants","tag-tp-sandwiches","tag-tp-seafood","tag-tp-tex-mex","tag-tp-texana"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302909","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=302909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}