{"id":447682,"date":"2026-09-25T19:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447682\/"},"modified":"2026-09-25T19:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-25T19:44:13","slug":"burger-schmurger-nears-500000-smashed-patties","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/447682\/","title":{"rendered":"Burger Schmurger nears 500,000 smashed patties"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/lakehighlands.advocatemag.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/iEATzl5g.jpeg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-160488\" class=\"wp-image-160488 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/iEATzl5g.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\"  \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-160488\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of Burger Schmurger.<\/p>\n<p>After 17 months at its permanent East Dallas location, Burger Schmurger is closing in on 500,000 smashed burger patties.<\/p>\n<p>The East Dallas restaurant smashes an average of 1,000 patties every day. When the 500,000th patty is served, the guest who orders the burger will take home a $500 Burger Schmurger gift card and a custom 18K gold burger necklace. The guest will also have the chance to have their name and photo added to the Burger Schmurger wall.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe knew people loved our burgers, but getting this close to 500,000 smashed patties in less than a year and a half is an incredible milestone for our family and our team,\u201d said Dave Culwell, co-owner of Burger Schmurger, in a recent press release.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the milestone, Burger Schmurger will also have confetti cannons and additional surprises.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are incredibly grateful to everyone who has supported us, and we wanted to have a little fun with the milestone by celebrating the person who gets that 500,000th patty,\u201d Culwell said.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tShare This Story, Choose Your Platform!<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1790365453_587_8ddafd819415d55fa9c7d86e7ec264373e8df34784422adeec47a828c58c2d8f.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-72 photo\" height=\"72\" width=\"72\" decoding=\"async\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo courtesy of Burger Schmurger. After 17 months at its permanent East Dallas location, Burger Schmurger is closing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":447683,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[154266,102,104,103,154267,5474],"class_list":["post-447682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-burger-schmurger","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news","tag-dave-culwell","tag-east-dallas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447682","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=447682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/447682\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/447683"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=447682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=447682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=447682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}