Jun 29, 2026 | 8:30 am
Rio Grande Valley chain Fork to Fit Kitchen hasn’t yet made its San Antonio debut, but it’s already doubling up in the area. After filing plans for an outpost in the Culebra Commons shopping center, the macro-optimized eatery is headed to the buzzy Scherz Station development at 18406 I-35 N.
Fork to Fit bills itself as “a different kind of fast-food company.” Co-founders Alex Velasco and Jose M Guerra first opened the business when Velasco was Guerra’s personal trainer, starting out with only a single-door refrigerator at the gym where both entrepreneurs worked out.
The concept was meant to serve as an alternative to the fast food fare and heavier Tex-Mex that dominates the Valley’s dining scene. Like San Antonio, the area is a mainstay on “fattest cities” lists, regularly dinged for systemic barriers like a lack of easily accessible healthier meals and economic restraints. Fork to Fit aims to remove a few of those obstacles, without trying to convince its customers to live off wheatgrass shots…