{"id":320064,"date":"2026-06-03T01:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320064\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T01:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T01:00:08","slug":"in-dallas-fort-worth-construction-begins-on-texas-first-white-castle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/320064\/","title":{"rendered":"In Dallas-Fort Worth, construction begins on Texas&#8217; first White Castle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>White Castle was founded in Wichita, Kan. Its slider shops have grown throughout the Midwest and Northeast to 336 restaurants in 14 states in just over a century. The family-owned company was \u201cselective\u201d and \u201cthoughtful,\u201d Richardson said, about planting roots in North Texas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a destination for us,\u201d Richardson said. \u201cWe don\u2019t franchise. We don\u2019t open dozens of restaurants a year.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Grandscape, specifically, drew the White Castle team to Texas, Richardson said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe more we learned about it, the more we could visualize us being there.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The development on State Highway 121, which draws customers from Frisco, Plano, McKinney and more, cost more than $1.5 billion. It\u2019s anchored by Nebraska Furniture Mart and sports mega-store Scheels, and it has become <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/restaurant-news\/2021\/10\/12\/5-things-to-know-about-grandscape-the-biggest-restaurant-village-in-north-texas\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the biggest restaurant village in North Texas<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dallasnews.com\/food\/restaurant-news\/2026\/03\/30\/portillo-s-opens-first-dallas-restaurant\/\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portillo\u2019s from Chicago<\/a> opened its first-in-Texas restaurant here, and Windmills Brewery from India picked Grandscape as its first location in the United States.<\/p>\n<p>Texas\u2019 first White Castle is expected to open in fall 2026. Consumers can expect the film-famous brand \u2014 featured in 2004\u2019s silly Harold &amp; Kumar Go to White Castle \u2014 to expand across Dallas-Fort Worth. Details on when or where aren\u2019t yet available.<\/p>\n<p>Texas\u2019 first White Castle is expected to open at 4520 Destination Drive, The Colony, in fall 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"White Castle was founded in Wichita, Kan. Its slider shops have grown throughout the Midwest and Northeast to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320065,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[27,29,28],"class_list":["post-320064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320064","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=320064"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320064\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320065"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}