{"id":367151,"date":"2026-07-09T18:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367151\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T18:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T18:40:09","slug":"houstons-mytiburger-hit-with-health-scare-break-in-in-one-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/367151\/","title":{"rendered":"Houston’s Mytiburger hit with health scare, break-in in one week"},"content":{"rendered":"

For one longtime Houston burger<\/a> joint, “when it rains, it pours” isn’t just a saying. It’s how Mytiburger<\/a> would describe the last few days at its 2211 W. 43rd St. location.<\/p>\n

The series of setbacks began Sunday, just as the July 4 weekend drew to a close. Mytiburger announced on social media that it had temporarily closed because of a family medical emergency. The team behind the 59-year-old restaurant<\/a> said it was planning to reopen on Wednesday, but on its first night back, someone allegedly tried to break in.<\/p>\n

Mytiburger shared surveillance images and photos on Facebook, showing the shattered windows left behind after the attempted break-in. The surveillance footage, timestamped around 11 p.m. on Wednesday\u2014roughly two hours after the restaurant closed\u2014appears to show a person trying to pry open the front door. According to the restaurant, suspects never gained entry and were “scared off by the alarm” after smashing three windows.<\/p>\n

Despite the damage, Mytiburger said the restaurant was reopening Thursday.<\/p>\n

The local restaurant has been open in the Oak Forest area since 1967, serving Texas-style burgers, fries, homemade onion rings and “just about anything else you can put bacon and cheese on (except the shakes),” as described on Mytiburger’s website.<\/p>\n

But the restaurant has faced its share of challenges in recent years.<\/p>\n

In a Facebook post in 2023, owner Shawn Salyers said Mytiburger was on the brink of closure after business slowed, Chron previously reported.<\/a> The restaurant’s plea for support drew long lines<\/a> of customers eager to help keep it open. A year later, Salyers told Chron that Mytiburger was in “better shape” financially, with revenue up 20 percent compared with before the viral post.<\/p>\n

Chron has reached out to Mytiburger for more details on this week’s attempted break-in and temporary closure. We will update this story if and when we hear back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For one longtime Houston burger joint, “when it rains, it pours” isn’t just a saying. It’s how Mytiburger…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":367152,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[1703,1704,56,58,57],"class_list":["post-367151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chronfood","tag-chronstaff","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367151","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=367151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/367152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=367151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=367151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=367151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}