{"id":375742,"date":"2026-07-16T17:59:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375742\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T17:59:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T17:59:09","slug":"what-to-know-about-upcoming-2026-fort-worth-burger-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/375742\/","title":{"rendered":"What to know about upcoming 2026 Fort Worth Burger Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Along with this year\u2019s <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/entertainment\/restaurants\/eats-beat\/article316533040.html\">30th annual DFW restaurant week<\/a> celebration comes the eighth annual Fort Worth <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/dfwburgerweek.com\/\">Burger Week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>From Monday, Aug. 17 until Sunday, Aug. 23,  more than 30 Fort Worth and Dallas restaurants pay a $150 fee to participate in Burger Week,  and 100 percent of those proceeds will go to local food banks.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, the businesses offer $8 specialty burgers to draw in more customers. In what can be a summer slum for some restaurants, Burger Week promotes extra traffic and service for our local eateries.<\/p>\n<p>What\u2019s Up Fort Worth, who organizes Burger Week, will soon release a <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsupfortworth.com\/burger-week\/\">Burger Week passport<\/a> that includes details about each participating restaurant and their specialty $8 burgers.<\/p>\n<p>Each $8 specialty burger eaten during the week automatically gives you one entry into a grander giveaway. Winners get a grand prize of a Backyard Hamburger Party for 30 people courtesy of the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/thehamburgerman.com\/\">Hamburger Man<\/a>, a Dallas-based burger caterer.<\/p>\n<p>What are the Burger Week deals?<\/p>\n<p>Each participating restaurant from Fort Worth or Dallas will offer a specialty burger for $8.<\/p>\n<p>Burger Week passports will include the restaurants, location, hours, specialty burger details and their conditions for dine-in, take out and delivery.<\/p>\n<p>                                          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"responsive-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/IMG_9469.jpeg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"900\" title=\"IMG_9469.jpeg\" alt=\"The cheeseburger with fresh vegetables, one of 10 burger varieties up to triple meat and cheese, served here with tater tots at the Burger Box in Richland Hills, Texas, as seen Feb. 6, 2026.\"\/>                                                                                    The cheeseburger with fresh vegetables, one of 10 burger varieties up to triple meat and cheese, served here with tater tots at the Burger Box in Richland Hills, Texas, as seen Feb. 6, 2026.                                                                                            Bud Kennedy                                                                            bud@star-telegram.com                                                                                        Which Fort Worth restaurants are participating in Burger Week?<\/p>\n<p>So far, a few restaurants are already confirmed for Fort Worth\u2019s Burger Week:<\/p>\n<p>If you are a restaurant wanting to participate in Burger Week, you can <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/whatsupfortworth.com\/fwbw-restaurant-form\/\">fill out an application<\/a> on What\u2019s Up Fort Worth\u2019s Burger Week website.<\/p>\n<p>Donations made in honor of Burger Week<\/p>\n<p>To make an extra donation in honor of Burger Week, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"Follow nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/tafb.org\/\">visit Tarrant Area Food Bank\u2019s website<\/a> and make a donation. Note in the donation comments that Fort Worth Burger Week sent you.<\/p>\n<p>        Related Stories from  Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>                <a href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/285141852\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n                        <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/ELLA_GONZALES.jpeg\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" alt=\"Profile Image of Ella Gonzales\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                <a class=\"author-name\" href=\"https:\/\/www.star-telegram.com\/profile\/285141852\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ella Gonzales<\/a><\/p>\n<p>                    Fort Worth Star-Telegram<\/p>\n<p>            Ella Gonzales is a service journalism reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. She is part of a team of local journalists who answer reader questions and write about life in North Texas. Ella mainly writes about local restaurants and where to find good deals around town.\n            <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Along with this year\u2019s 30th annual DFW restaurant week celebration comes the eighth annual Fort Worth Burger Week.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":375743,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[116,118,117],"class_list":["post-375742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth","tag-fort-worth-headlines","tag-fort-worth-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375742","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=375742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/375742\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/375743"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=375742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=375742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=375742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}