As the old adage goes: If you want something done right, you have to do it yourself.
That mindset is part of the reason two brothers are opening a restaurant as well as a food trailer in Modesto — so they can serve the community “a really good burger,” Brandon Benefield said.
Benefield and his brother Brian Bettencourt are opening the Double B’s Burgers food trailer, stationed in Paradise Plaza on I and Eighth streets. In addition, they’ll soon open a restaurant with the same name and menu on Beckwith Road where Magnolia Southern Kitchen recently closed.
“There are so many burger places everywhere,” Benefield said. But a good burger is different than just a burger — and “that’s where (Double B’s) separates” itself, he said.
The brothers were born and raised in Modesto. Bettencourt has a 35-year background in concrete work and Benefield is a musician who won the 2023 Modesto Area Music Award for best hip-hop.
So, how do a blue-collar worker and a hip-hop artist come to open a burger restaurant?