The first Whataburger in SC to open in July. Here’s when and where

South Carolina’s first Whataburger will open July 15 in Boiling Springs.

The Texas-based chain will have an official grand opening at 11 a.m. that day at 3647 Boiling Springs Road in Spartanburg County.

The opening marks Whataburger locations in 16 states.

In South Carolina, the hamburger chain has nine restaurants under construction in the Midlands and Upstate and so far four more planned for 2025.

Whataburger was founded in 1950 as a roadside burger stand by Harmon Dobson in Corpus Christi, Texas.

Dobson died in a private plane crash in 1967, and his wife Grace took over the company. By the time she died in 2005 at age 80, the company had grown to 600 stores.

The family sold its majority interest in the company In 2019 to Chicago-based investment firm BDT Capital, which began the expansion program.

They commemorated their 1000th restaurant in January with the opening of two locations, corporate-owned Atlanta, Georgia, and franchise-owned Yukon, Oklahoma. Whataburger also opened a location in Las Vegas in February.