{"id":780566,"date":"2026-05-07T22:15:25","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:15:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780566\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T22:15:25","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:15:25","slug":"portillos-opens-first-san-antonio-area-location-in-schertz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/780566\/","title":{"rendered":"Portillo&#8217;s opens first San Antonio-area location in Schertz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After almost a year of anticipation, Chicago hot dog chain <a href=\"https:\/\/www.portillos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Portillo&#8217;s<\/a> finally has an opening date in Schertz. The cult-favorite restaurant concept will celebrate its grand opening on June 7, according to a store employee.<\/p>\n<p>The new location in the massive <a href=\"https:\/\/sanantonio.culturemap.com\/news\/restaurants-bars\/schertz-station-portillos-cava-daves\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Schertz Station<\/a> shopping center will be the first in the San Antonio area. The company has been making a heavy investment in Texas, opening several outposts in the Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston areas, plus far-flung locations in El Paso and Lubbock.There&#8217;s still no word of a unit inside the city limits.<\/p>\n<p>According to an earlier release, the new Portillo&#8217;s will feature its &#8220;restaurant of the future&#8221; design with a smaller, more efficient footprint, the brand&#8217;s signature double drive-thru lanes, pick-up shelves, and a convenient grab-and-go area. The location is <a href=\"https:\/\/careers.portillos.com\/search-jobs\/?keyword=schertz&amp;location=&amp;job_category=&amp;lat=&amp;lng=&amp;fbclid=IwY2xjawRpaGNleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF4RzhmTVFYc2lpTUFhOTQ5c3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHpEMVMnX8qSgfM4W2mmLSamVTjEjYi_SRtKNQg84b4wP_RFQiC5tPCJ_uTVF_aem_IIcr2btx7FuQcOmKtuCJ3w\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">currently hiring<\/a> real humans, so no worries about robots.<\/p>\n<p>Portillo&#8217;s is most known for selling glizzies, an homage to its Windy City roots. Hot dogs come in regular, chili cheese, a chargrilled Maxwell Street Polish sausage, and a vegan Garden variety.<\/p>\n<p>The Italian beef sandwich features thinly sliced roast beef served on French bread, which can be plunked in hot &#8220;gravy,&#8221; technically au jus. The chain rounds off the menu with burgers, chicken sandwiches, salads, Italian-American pastas, and some rather saucy ribs.<\/p>\n<p>Portillo&#8217;s has not announced any launch promotions or posted its opening hours. Fans can check for updates on the Schertz location page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After almost a year of anticipation, Chicago hot dog chain Portillo&#8217;s finally has an opening date in Schertz.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":780567,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5133],"tags":[5229,20494,31226,10084,7202,7203,47719,18720,358,3187,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-780566","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-antonio","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-chains","10":"tag-hot-dogs","11":"tag-openings","12":"tag-san-antonio","13":"tag-sanantonio","14":"tag-sandwiches","15":"tag-schertz","16":"tag-texas","17":"tag-tx","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116535605683066143","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780566","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}