1st Shake Shack In Tampa Bay Open For Business

TAMPA, FL — Tampa Mayor Jane Castor was among those on hand Monday to help cut the ribbon as Shake Shack opened its first Tampa Bay restaurant at the new Midtown Tampa mixed-use development.

Joining Castor were members of the South Tampa Chamber, Midtown Tampa developers Bromley companies and Shake Shack's local charity partner, Feeding Tampa Bay.

Located at 1011 Gramercy Lane, the Midtown Tampa Shack will be open from 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday.

The Shack will offer guests indoor as well as outdoor dining options on its spacious outdoor patio. Guests can also place orders to go at the Shack or preorder for pickup or delivery via the Shack App. Web ordering will also be available in the coming weeks.

“We are so excited to finally open our doors in Midtown Tampa,” said Andrew McCaughan, chief development officer at Shake Shack. “Years in the making, our debut Tampa location will be one of the development’s first restaurants to open, featuring a big, welcoming patio and beautifully designed interiors. We can’t wait to expand our footprint in Central Florida and finally bring our classics to the greater Tampa Bay community.”

The Midtown Tampa Shack’s menu will feature all the classics, including the ShackBurger, Chick’n Shack, crinkle-cut fries and hand-spun shakes. To satisfy patrons' thirst, the Shack will offer Shack-made lemonade, Shack red, white and rosé canned wines, ShackMeister Ale brewed by Brooklyn Brewery and local beer from Florida Beer Co. and Cigar City Brewing, among other beverage offerings.

The Shack will also open with some limited-time offers such as the new Avocado Bacon Burger and Avocado Bacon Chick’n Shack, as well as the Pride Shake featuring strawberry and blackberry frozen custard topped with a mango + passion fruit blend, whipped cream and rainbow glitter.

Available throughout June in honor of Pride Month, 5 percent of sales from the shake will benefit Trevor Project, the leading national organization providing crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to LGBTQ young people under 25.

For the Midtown Tampa opening and as part of its larger mission to Stand for Something Good, Shake Shack donated one dollar for every sandwich ordered on opening day to Feeding Tampa Bay. Part of the national Feeding America network, Feeding Tampa Bay focuses on providing food to more than one million food-insecure families in the 10-county area of West Central Florida.

Shake Shack is a modern day “roadside” burger stand known for its 100 percent all-natural Angus beef burgers, chicken sandwiches and flat-top Vienna beef dogs (no hormones or antibiotics), spun-fresh frozen custard, crinkle-cut fries, craft beer and wine.

Since the original Shack opened in 2004 in New York City's Madison Square Park, the company has expanded to more than 300 locations in 27 states and the District of Columbia, and more than 100 international locations in London, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Dubai, Philippines, Singapore, Mexico, Tokyo and Seoul.

It's the newest addition to the Midtown Tampa mixed-use community connecting the Westshore area to downtown Tampa. Midtown Tampa broke ground two years ago on 23 acres of underused commercial and office space off Dale Mabry Highway and Cypress Street.

When completed this year, the $500 million Midtown Tampa will consist of 11 buildings encompassing 1.8 million square feet of retail, residential, entertainment and hospitality, residential and office space.

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