{"id":437371,"date":"2026-09-16T04:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/437371\/"},"modified":"2026-09-16T04:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T04:42:09","slug":"kekes-breakfast-cafe-to-open-6-locations-in-san-antonio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/437371\/","title":{"rendered":"Keke’s Breakfast Cafe to open 6 locations in San Antonio"},"content":{"rendered":"

A new major player is entering San Antonio\u2019s ongoing brunch food fight. Florida breakfast Keke’s Breakfast Cafe<\/a> has signed a six-unit franchising deal to introduce the quickly growing concept to Alamo City.<\/p>\n

Brothers Keith and Kevin Mahen founded the Keke\u2019s in 2006, combining the first two letters of each of their names. According to the company, the siblings could not find an Orlando caf\u00e9 that rivaled the diners in their native Philadelphia, so they decided to open a restaurant of their own.<\/p>\n

Although the chain steadily expanded throughout the 2010s, it was mostly a regional favorite. That all changed when breakfast behemoth Denny\u2019s acquired the brand in 2022 for a reported $82.5 million. Denny\u2019s decided to go all-in on the chain, investing in more markets even as it was closing more than 100 underperforming locations of its flagship restaurant.<\/p>\n

The two concepts are not that different. Both offer pancakes, stuffed French toast, and hefty omelets. But where Denny\u2019s menu riffs on diner classics like steak and eggs, Keke\u2019s has introduced Millennial-friendly dishes like avocado toast and breakfast bowls.<\/p>\n

And Keke\u2019s is a player in the all-day brunch scene, competing against a slew of buzzy chains entering the San Antonio market. That means guests can get moony while they slam a few mimosas instead of washing down a Moons Over My Hammy with plain orange juice.<\/p>\n

The San Antonio Keke\u2019s will come from longtime friends and restaurant novices Danny Ohioze and Adebiyi Wale. After immigrating from Nigeria around 15 years ago, both built careers in the tech sector \u2014 but that trajectory changed after Wale stumbled on a downtown Dallas location.<\/p>\n

“We walked in, and it looked fantastic,” Wale explained in a release. “We sat down, the food was great, and immediately my wife started talking about how good the food looked. Before we even got the food, I texted Danny and said, ‘We need to open this business.'”<\/p>\n

Wale and Ohioze do not yet have a target date and are still scouting locations, but have no doubts about their ambitious opening strategy \u2014 even in a market where national newcomers like The Toasted Yolk<\/a>, P\u00fcr & Simple<\/a>, Squeeze In<\/a>, and Another Broken Egg<\/a> Cafe are jostling with locals like Box St. All Day<\/a> and Sunny\u2019s All Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n

“This is a very family-oriented city, and people are always looking for breakfast or lunch,” said Ohioze. “There are only a handful of places that are doing it excellently well, and their waitlists are always super long. That tells me there is a market for these services.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new major player is entering San Antonio\u2019s ongoing brunch food fight. Florida breakfast Keke’s Breakfast Cafe has…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437372,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[321,1462,1808,5859,423,82,84,83],"class_list":["post-437371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-antonio","tag-breakfast","tag-brunch","tag-chains","tag-franchises","tag-openings","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\/437371","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=437371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437372"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}