Beloved breakfast chain Waffle House is expanding across Texas with more than a dozen new restaurants planned for the Lone Star State. But those in San Antonio are still left asking what the Alamo City has to do to be included in the mix.
A recent filing with the Texas Department of Licensing and Registration (TDLR) shows yet another location headed to Texas, this time in Splendora — a small city of just over 1,000 people north of Houston. Work on the $300,000 restaurant is expected to begin in July of 2027 and wrap up by the end of that year.
How many Waffle House restaurants are there in Texas?
According to data website ScrapeHero, there are 132 Waffle Houses currently serving Texans — none of them in San Antonio — and an exhaustive list of TDLR filings shows many more coming down the pipeline in 2027.
In North Texas alone, there are diners in the works on top of nearly 70 existing locations listed on the chain’s website. Filings place the new ones in Anna, Fort Worth, Haslet, Princeton, Melissa, Waxahachie, Denton and more. A Waffle House in Little Elm is likely to open sometime soon, as TDLR lists the project as closed, though an opening date has yet to be announced…