{"id":435205,"date":"2026-09-14T02:24:32","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435205\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T02:24:32","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T02:24:32","slug":"hat-creek-burger-co-plans-first-leander-restaurant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/435205\/","title":{"rendered":"Hat Creek Burger Co. plans first Leander restaurant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Now, the chain is teeing up its newest Austin-area outpost and first restaurant in the capital city suburb of Leander, located approximately 30 miles north of Austin. On September 2, Hat Creek <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tdlr.texas.gov\/TABS\/Search\/Project\/TABS2027000183\" data-link=\"native\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">registered project filings<\/a> with the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, outlining the Williamson County restaurant in development.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant will be located along Crystal Park Trail, Leander, TX 78641 at a yet-to-be-determined specific address number. With an estimated budget of roughly $1.5 million, construction is expected to begin in early November 2026 and wrap on or around early April 2027. TDLR filings are preliminary and both construction costs and timelines are approximations that are subject to change.<\/p>\n<p>The 3,438-square-foot restaurant will join a rapidly developing city and commercial corridor, with nearby businesses including an H-E-B plus!, Layne&#8217;s Chicken Fingers, the H-E-B Center at Cedar Park and other retail and restaurant offerings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now, the chain is teeing up its newest Austin-area outpost and first restaurant in the capital city suburb&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":435206,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[132,134,133,2108,1112,820],"class_list":["post-435205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-austin","tag-austin","tag-austin-headlines","tag-austin-news","tag-mysaaustin","tag-mysafood","tag-mysastaff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435205","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=435205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435205\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}