1721 Old Bay Shore Hwy. — Approximate Late-Night Food Truck Site
A burger stand that once sold single, double and triple smash burgers out of a rented food truck parked across from Calaveras Hills High School has grown into a full restaurant on N Milpitas Blvd. Dough Burgers opened its Milpitas location in August 2026, co-founder Daniel, who asked to be identified by first name only, said in an interview with The Milpitas Beat.
A Food Truck Born Near a High School Parking Lot
The business traces back to a rented food truck that Daniel remodeled himself, adding a TV and power outlets, before stationing it in the Ocean Supermarket parking lot in Milpitas, directly across from Calaveras Hills High School, according to The Milpitas Beat. He designed the original menu around single, double and triple burgers alongside fries, saucy fries and mashed fries, and the truck sold food there. He paid roughly $1,000 a month in rent for the spot, plus a few hundred dollars for insurance, on top of the roughly $1,200 to $1,300 he spent on the truck itself.
Business picked up enough that the landlord raised his rent, and the truck eventually left the Ocean Supermarket lot after the landlord removed it, the outlet reports. Six months into the operation, Daniel bought his own truck and relocated to a rented spot at 1721 Old Bay Shore Highway near downtown San Jose, where the truck sold food from 6 p.m. to 1:30 a.m. That move set up the first true Dough Burgers restaurant, which opened in San Jose in June 2025 — a listing later picked up by KQED, whose 2025 Ramadan guide noted the San José location stayed open until 1:30 a.m. on weekdays and 3 a.m. on weekends during the holiday.
Why Milpitas Felt Like Home
A little over a year after the San Jose opening, Daniel brought Dough Burgers back to Milpitas, saying the city felt comfortable because he went to school there and first launched the food truck in that same neighborhood, per the same account. An online ordering listing places the Milpitas restaurant at 1476 N Milpitas Blvd, offering pickup and delivery. The menu has settled into three burgers, three styles of fries, a dessert and fountain drinks. Dough Burgers now ranks No. 487 among 2,285 restaurants in San Jose on Tripadvisor, where one reviewer praised the “excellent halal smash burger and very good fries (not greasy).”…