{"id":372789,"date":"2026-07-14T17:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372789\/"},"modified":"2026-07-14T17:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T17:50:10","slug":"portillos-to-open-second-san-antonio-area-location-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/372789\/","title":{"rendered":"Portillo&#8217;s to open second San Antonio-area location next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just a month after opening its first San Antonio area location,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.portillos.com\/index.html\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Portillo\u2019s<\/a> is beefing up its presence in the metro area.<\/p>\n<p>The popular Chicago-based hot dog and Italian beef chain plans to build a second restaurant in New Braunfels. Construction on the estimated $2.5 million drive-thru is expected to begin in November and be completed by May, according to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdlr.texas.gov\/TABS\/Projects\/TABS2026025141\" data-link=\"native\" class=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a filing<\/a> with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation.<\/p>\n<p>The 4,987-square-foot location will be located at 2807 Sophie Lane, just off Interstate 35 and down the street from one of\u00a0Buc-ee\u2019s largest travel centers.<\/p>\n<p>The brand\u2019s new stores are part of a major Texas expansion that so far has created 20 stores in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Lubbock and, now, San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Portillo\u2019s first opened in 1963 in a Chicago suburb and has built a devoted following around its dipped Italian beef sandwiches, Chicago-style hot dogs, onion rings with cheese sauce and cake shakes\u00a0\u2014 an entire piece of chocolate cake blended into a milkshake.<\/p>\n<p>The fast-food chain, which now has 111 locations across 11 states, went public in 2021 after selling nearly three-fourths of its equity to private investment firm Berkshire Partners a decade ago.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Just a month after opening its first San Antonio area location,\u00a0Portillo\u2019s is beefing up its presence in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":329370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[82,84,83],"class_list":["post-372789","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio","tag-san-antonio-headlines","tag-san-antonio-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372789","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=372789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/372789\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/329370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=372789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=372789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=372789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}