{"id":394240,"date":"2026-08-01T01:58:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:58:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/394240\/"},"modified":"2026-08-01T01:58:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-01T01:58:10","slug":"gong-chas-50-unit-texas-deal-will-bring-new-locations-to-austin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/394240\/","title":{"rendered":"Gong Cha&#8217;s 50-Unit Texas Deal Will Bring New Locations to Austin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.qsrmagazine.com\/news\/gong-cha-signs-50-unit-agreement-in-texas\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">QSR<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gong-cha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Gong Cha<\/a> signed a 50-unit deal that will bring new locations to Houston, Dallas, San Antonio and Austin.<\/p>\n<p>What Now Austin spoke with Brett Walker, managing member of Bakers Acres &amp; Cattle Company (BACC), the franchise group behind the deal, and asked how many of the 50 planned locations would land in Austin. \u201cThere\u2019ll actually be more in Houston. That\u2019s really the only numbers that I can disclose right now\u201d Walker said, declining to give an exact breakdown for the other three markets at this moment.<\/p>\n<p>Walker confirm that <a href=\"https:\/\/bakersacrescattle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BACC<\/a> has already taken ownership of four existing Gong Cha locations, three of them in Austin, as part of the same agreement. \u201cWe\u2019ve already acquired four locations, three in Austin and one in San Antonio,\u201d Walker told What Now Austin, identifying the Austin stores as The Domain, Anna Plaza, and Dobie Hall near the University of Texas.<\/p>\n<p>The broader agreement, a seven-year exclusive area development deal, marks the largest direct franchising deal in Gong Cha\u2019s history.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/bakersacrescattle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">BACC<\/a>, a Houston-based, multi-generational family business, entered franchising in 2015 with Nothing Bundt Cakes and has since built a bakery platform across Greater Houston.<\/p>\n<p>Walker described the company as more than a boba operator. \u201cWe\u2019re a small family office that invests in real estate, cattle, bakeries, and boba,\u201d he said. \u201cWe\u2019re not just about tea. We\u2019re also all about our family.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information, follow Gong Cha on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/gongchatea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gongchatea\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Facebook<\/a> for updates.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"According to QSR, Gong Cha signed a 50-unit deal that will bring new locations to Houston, Dallas, San&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":394241,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133],"class_list":["post-394240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394240","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=394240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/394240\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=394240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}