It’s not typical you get to try menu items from a restaurant before it’s even begun construction, but since a family-owned burger spot opening in Turlock has a location established a bit farther down the freeway, eager patrons are in luck.
The first location of Smash Bros Burgers opened in Merced in June 2024. A second restaurant bearing the name will open by the time the owners celebrate their one-year anniversary.
It takes guts to open a burger spot directly across the street from an In-N-Out, but the challenge was boldly accepted by Wahab Muheyaddin and his cousins Qais Mohammad and Mohammad Mohammad when they found an available building in Merced…